Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/15/2020
The Buddha speaks to Ānanda on what at AN 3.47 described as the “characteristics of conditioned phenomena”: arising, ceasing, and change while persisting. This was to become a critical aspect of later theories on the nature of change. Ānanda explains in terms of the aggregates.At Sāvatthī. And then Venerable Ānanda … sitting to one side, the Buddha said to him: “Ānanda, suppose they were to ask you: ‘Reverend Ānanda, what are the things for which arising is evident, vanishing is evident, and change while persisting is evident?
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