LESSON 110 Ahara Sutta Nutriment 13 12 2010 FREE ONLINE eNΔlandΔ Research and Practice UNIVERSITY
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Traditionally the are 84,000 Dharma Doors - 84,000 ways to get Awakeness. Maybe so; certainly the Buddha taught a large number of practices that lead to Awakeness. This web page attempts to catalogue those found in the Pali Suttas (DN, MN, SN, AN, Ud & Sn 1). There are 3 sections: |
The discourses of Buddha are divided into 84,000, as to separate addresses. The division includes all that was spoken by Buddha.βI received from Buddha,β said Ananda, β82,000 Khandas, and from the priests 2000; these are 84,000 Khandas maintained by me.β They are divided into 275,250, as to the stanzas of the original text, and into 361,550, as to the stanzas of the commentary. All the discourses including both those of Buddha and those of the commentator, are divided into 2,547 banawaras, containing 737,000 stanzas, and 29,368,000 separate letters.
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SN 12.11
PTS: S ii 11
CDB i 540
Ahara Sutta: Nutriment
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Alternate translation: Nyanaponika
This discourse incorporates the teaching on the four nutriments (see SN 12.63-64) into the pattern for dependent co-arising, placing them in the position usually occupied by clinging: after craving and before becoming. Putting nutriment in this position highlights one of the connotations of the Pali word for clinging, upadana, which can also mean “sustenance.” It also highlights one of the connotations of the Pali word for craving, tanha, which can also mean “thirst.”
The Commentary to this discourse tries to fit this teaching into the three-lifetime interpretation of dependent co-arising, emphasizing the role of the four nutriments in the mechanics of death and rebirth, but there is no need to limit the teaching to this interpretation. The teachings both in this discourse and in the following one show the complex interactions and feedback loops among the different factors of dependent co-arising, both between lifetimes and within a single lifetime β even a single moment. Craving is what takes material form, contact, intention, and consciousness β all of which precede it in the chain of dependent co-arising β and turns them into food for further becoming: continued becoming in this lifetime, and future becoming in the next.
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi in Jeta’s Grove, Anathapindika’s monastery. There he addressed the monks, “Monks, there are these four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born. Which four? Physical food, gross or refined; contact as the second; intellectual intention the third; and consciousness the fourth. These are the four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born.
“Now, these four nutriments have what as their cause, what as their origination, what as their source, what as that which brings them into play? These four nutriments have craving as their cause, craving as their origination, craving as their source, craving as that which brings them into play.
“And this craving has what as its cause, what as its origination, what as its source, what as that which brings it into play?… Feeling…
“And this feeling has what as its cause…? …Contact…
“And this contact has what as its cause…? …The six sense media…
“And these six sense media have what as their cause…? …Name-&-form…
“And this name-&-form has what as its cause…? …Consciousness…
“And this consciousness has what as its cause…? …Fabrication…
“And this fabrication has what as its cause, what as its origination, what as its source, what as that which brings it into play? Fabrication has ignorance as its cause, ignorance as its origination, ignorance as its source, ignorance as that which brings it into play.
“Thus, from ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications.
“From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness.
“From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form.
“From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media.
“From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contact.
“From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling.
“From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving.
“From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance.
“From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming.
“From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth.
“From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering.
“Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications. From the cessation of fabrications comes the cessation of consciousness. From the cessation of consciousness comes the cessation of name-&-form. From the cessation of name-&-form comes the cessation of the six sense media. From the cessation of the six sense media comes the cessation of contact. From the cessation of contact comes the cessation of feeling. From the cessation of feeling comes the cessation of craving. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/ sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering.”
See also: SN 12.12; SN 12.31; SN 12.63; SN 12.64; AN 10.27; The Four Nutriments of Life by Nyanaponika Thera.
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[The Buddhist Circle] Visa-on-arrival for Buddhist pilgrims to India.
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450 SC/ST quota posts vacant in top Delhi govt hospitals
Agencies
Posted online: 2010-12-10 15:47:09+05:30
New DelhiThe government today said more than 450 posts under the
reserved category were lying vacant in three top state-run hospitals
in the national capital owing to various reasons.
“498 reserved posts are lying vacant in three Central government
hospitals — Safdarjung hospital, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and
Lady Hardinge Medical College and associated hospitals on account of
death, retirement, resignation, non-availability of suitable
candidates,” Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told the Lok Sabha
in a written reply today.
“Recruitment and filling up of these posts is a continuous process and
vacancies are filled up through the recruiting agencies based on
requirement and also taking into account the government’s reservation
policy,” Azad said.
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Published: Dec 10, 2010 23:15 Updated: Dec 10, 2010 23:15
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