The First Stage of Enlightenment (Stream-Enterer)
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Chapter 31
The Noble Method is to Understand Dependent Origination
Read Chapter 31 of The First Stage of Enlightenment (Stream-Enterer): The Noble Method is to Understand Dependent Origination.
And what is the noble method that he has clearly seen and thoroughly penetrated with wisdom?
Here, Householder, the Noble Disciple attends closely and carefully to dependent origination itself thus:
When this exists, that comes to be;
with the arising of this, that arises.
When this does not exist, that does not come to be;
with the elimination of this, that is eliminated.
That is:
With ignorance as condition, volitional formations [come to be];
with volitional formations as condition, consciousness;
with consciousness as condition, name-and-form;
with name-and-form as condition, the six sense bases;
with the six sense bases as condition, contact;
with contact as condition, feeling;
with feeling as condition, craving;
with craving as condition, clinging;
with clinging as condition, existence;
with existence as condition, birth;
with birth as condition, aging-and-death, sorrow, grief, pain, displeasure, and despair come to be.
Such is the cause of this whole mass of discontentedness.
But with the remainderless fading away and elimination of ignorance (unknowing of true reality) comes elimination of volitional formations (choices/decisions);
with the elimination of volitional formations, elimination of consciousness;
with the elimination of consciousness comes elimination of name-and- form;
with the elimination of name-and-form comes elimination of the six sense bases;
with the elimination of the six sense bases comes elimination of contact;
with the elimination of contact comes elimination of feeling;
with the elimination of feeling comes elimination of craving;
with the elimination of craving comes elimination of clinging;
with the elimination of clinging comes elimination of existence;
with the elimination of existence comes elimination of birth;
with the elimination of birth comes elimination of aging-and-death, sorrow, grief, pain, displeasure, and despair is eliminated.
Such is the elimination of this whole mass of discontentedness.
This is the noble method that he has clearly seen and thoroughly penetrated with wisdom.
(Reference: SN 12.41)
In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares another description of Dependent Origination as described in Chapter 14 of this book.
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