CONTACT, RAPPORT [reg pa]
What is rapport? It is a determination, a transformation in
the controlling power, which is in accordance with the three factors coming
together. Its function is to provide a basis for feeling.
-Abhidarmasamuccaya
It is an awareness in which a pleasant feeling is felt when the object,
sensory capacity, and cognitive process have come together and which is
restricted to the appropriate object. Transformation in the controlling
power means that when the visual sense meets a pleasant object and the
feeling becomes the cause of adhering to this pleasure, rapport restricts
the pleasant color-form and the feeling becomes the cause of pleasure.