#Linked Discourses 12

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate fetters, illustrated with the simile of a lamp.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, suppose an oil lamp depended on oil and a wick to burn. And from time to time someone would pour oil in and adjust the wick. Fueled and sustained by that, the oil lamp would burn for a long time. In the same way, there are things that are prone to being fettered. [Read More]

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate fetters, illustrated with the simile of a lamp.At Sāvatthī. “There are things that are prone to being fettered. When you concentrate on the gratification provided by these things, your craving grows. Craving is a condition for grasping. Grasping is a condition for continued existence. Continued existence is a condition for rebirth. Rebirth is a condition for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come to be. [Read More]

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate grasping, illustrated with the simile of a bonfire.At Sāvatthī. “There are things that are prone to being grasped. When you concentrate on the gratification provided by these things, your craving grows. Craving is a condition for grasping. Grasping is a condition for continued existence. Continued existence is a condition for rebirth. Rebirth is a condition for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come to be. [Read More]

A mendicant should thoroughly investigate the causes of suffering in accordance with dependent origination. If someone who still has ignorance makes a choice, their consciousness fares on to a suitable state of existence. But one who has eradicated ignorance is detached and is not reborn anywhere.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. [Read More]

A noble disciple does not wonder about the links of dependent origination, as they see it for themselves, independent of others.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, a learned noble disciple doesn’t think: ‘When what exists, what is? Due to the arising of what, what arises? When what exists do choices come to be? When what exists does consciousness come to be? When what exists do name and form … the six sense fields … contact … feeling … craving … grasping … continued existence … rebirth … old age and death come to be? [Read More]

A noble disciple does not wonder about the links of dependent origination, as they see it for themselves, independent of others.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, a learned noble disciple doesn’t think: ‘When what exists, what is? Due to the arising of what, what arises? When what exists do name and form come to be? What what exists do the six sense fields … contact … feeling … craving … grasping … continued existence … rebirth … old age and death come to be? [Read More]

A brahmin cosmologist asks the Buddha whether all exists or nothing exists. The Buddha rejects both views as extreme.At Sāvatthī. Then a brahmin cosmologist went up to the Buddha … Seated to one side he said to the Buddha: “Master Gotama, does all exist?” “‘All exists’: this is the oldest cosmology, brahmin.” “Then does all not exist?” “‘All doesn’t exist’: this is the second cosmology. “Well, is all a unity?” “‘All is a unity’: this is the third cosmology. [Read More]

The brahmin Jāṇussoṇi asks the Buddha whether all exists or nothing exists. The Buddha rejects both views as extreme.At Sāvatthī. Then the brahmin Jāṇussoṇi went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. Seated to one side he said to the Buddha: “Master Gotama, does all exist?” “‘All exists’: this is one extreme, brahmin.” “Then does all not exist?” “‘All doesn’t exist’: this is the second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One teaches by the middle way: ‘Ignorance is a condition for choices. [Read More]

A brahmin asks whether the person who acts is the same or different to the person who receives the result. The Buddha rejects both views as extreme.At Sāvatthī. Then a certain brahmin went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to the Buddha: “Master Gotama, does the person who does the deed experience the result? [Read More]

While on retreat, the Buddha exclaims how the origin and ending of the world are explained in terms of sense experience giving rise to craving and suffering. A mendicant overhears him, and the Buddha urges him to remember that teaching.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying at Nādika in the brick house. Then while the Buddha was in private retreat he spoke this exposition of the teaching: “Eye consciousness arises dependent on the eye and sights. [Read More]