
SN 22.60 Mahāli Sutta: With Mahāli
But because consciousness is painful—soaked and steeped in pain and not steeped in pleasure—sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they are purified. This is a cause and reason for the purification of sentient beings.
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SN 12.26 Upavāṇa Sutta: With Upavāna
Rather than saying “who” creates our suffering, the Buddha says “what” suffering (and views about it) depend on.
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SN 12.60 Nidāna Sutta: Sources
Fed and fuelled by that, the great tree would stand for a long time.
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SN 46.29 Ekadhamma Sutta: One Thing
Bhikkhus, I do not see even one other thing that, when developed and cultivated, leads to the abandoning of the things that fetter so effectively as this
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SN 46.2 Kāya Sutta: The Body
…the sign of the beautiful: frequently giving careless attention to it is the nutriment for the arising of unarisen sensual desire…
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Perceiving
Perceiving is the process by which evanescent sensations are linked to environmental cause and made enduring and coherent through the assignment of meaning, utility, and value.
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AN 3.41 Sammukhībhāva Sutta: Present
The faithful make merit when three factors are present.
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How Long Is a Lifetime?: Buddhadasa’s and Phra Payutto’s Interpretations of Paṭiccasamuppāda in Comparison
In a lecture which he gave in his monastery on the 12th of June 1971, Buddhadāsa criticised this Three Lifetimes Theory with sharp words. He compared this presentation of paṭiccasamuppāda with ‘cancer, an incurable tumour of Buddhist scholarship’.
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Dependent Arising and Interdependence
… in Huayan philosophy in particular the notion of interconnectedness or interdependence arose, according to which all phenomena relate to each other in one way or another. Despite its traction in the contemporary setting, this notion needs to be recognized as a later development that is by no means identical with the basic Buddhist teaching on dependent arising.
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