Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/10/2019
A mendicant asks who possesses old and death, and the other factors. The Buddha says the question is improper, as it assumes a self as agent. Rather, dependent origination is the teaching “by the middle”, explaining phenomena according to natural conditions.At Sāvatthī. “Ignorance is a condition for choices. Choices are a condition for consciousness. … That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.” When this was said, one of the mendicants asked the Buddha, “What are old age and death, sir, and who do they belong to?
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