Friday, October 28, 2005

The Dependent Arising (Paticca Samuppada, เธ�เธ�เธดเธ�เธชเธกเธธเธ�เธ�เธฒเธ—)

The Dependent Arising (Paticca Samuppada, เธ�เธ�เธดเธ�เธชเธกเธธเธ�เธ�เธฒเธ—) : "When this (cause) exists, this (effect) is; with the arising
of this (cause), this effect arises."



Dependent on Ignorance (avijja) arise moral and
immoral Conditioning Activities (sankhara).


Dependent on Conditioning Activities arises (Relinking)
Consciousness (vinnana).


Dependent on (Relinking) Consciousness arise Mind and
Matter (nama-rupa).


Dependent on Mind and Matter arise the Six Spheres of
Sense (salayatana).


Dependent on the Six Spheres of Sense arises Contact
(phassa).


Dependent on Contact arises Feeling (vedana).

Dependent on Feeling arises Craving (tanha).

Dependent on Craving arises Grasping (upadana).

Dependent on Grasping arises Becoming (bhava).

Dependent on Becoming arises Birth (jati).

Dependent on Birth arise Decay (jara), Death (marana),
Sorrow (soka), Lamentation (parideva), Pain (dukkha)
Grief (domanassa), and Despair (upayasa).


Thus does this whole mass of suffering originate.


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