Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/19/2019

Posted on September 19, 2019

One who does not understand dependent origination is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t understand these things, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. What things don’t they understand? They don’t understand old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. They don’t understand rebirth … continued existence … grasping … craving … feeling … contact … the six sense fields … name and form … consciousness … They don’t understand choices, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. [Read More]
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/18/2019

Posted on September 18, 2019

One who does not understand dependent origination is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t understand old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. They don’t understand rebirth … continued existence … grasping … craving … feeling … contact … the six sense fields … name and form … consciousness … They don’t understand choices, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. [Read More]
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/17/2019

Posted on September 17, 2019

Venerable Moḷiyaphagguna asks who eats the consciousness food. The Buddha says the question is improper, as it assumes a self as agent. Rather, all the factors of dependent origination are simply natural conditions and have nothing to do with a “self”.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these four fuels. They maintain sentient beings that have been born and help those that are about to be born. What four? Solid food, whether coarse or fine; contact is the second, mental intention the third, and consciousness the fourth. [Read More]
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/16/2019

Posted on September 16, 2019

The Buddha defines the four kinds of “food” or “nutriment”, which include edible food, contact, intention, and consciousness. These are all produced by craving, and hence connect with dependent origination.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. … “Mendicants, there are these four fuels. They maintain sentient beings that have been born and help those that are about to be born. [Read More]
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/15/2019

Posted on September 15, 2019

The current Buddha Gotama, reflecting on how the world had fallen into suffering, became awakened by understanding dependent origination.“Mendicants, before my awakening—when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening—I thought: ‘Alas, this world has fallen into trouble. It’s born, grows old, dies, passes away, and is reborn, yet it doesn’t understand how to escape from this suffering, from old age and death. Oh, when will an escape be found from this suffering, from old age and death? [Read More]
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