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LESSON 255
Bodhi Sutta: The Bodhi Tree (1)
Thus have
I heard. At one time the Lord was staying at Uruvela, beside the river
NeraΓ±jara at the foot of the Bodhi Tree, having just realized full awakenment.
At that time the Lord sat cross-legged for seven days experiencing the bliss of
liberation. Then, at the end of those seven days, the Lord emerged from that
concentration and gave well-reasoned attention during the first watch of the
night to dependent arising in forward order, thus:
This
being, that is;
from the arising of this, that arises.
That is:
with
ignorance as condition, volitional activities come to be;
with volitional activities as condition, consciousness comes to be;
with consciousness as condition, name-and-form comes to be;
with name-and-form as condition, the sixfold base comes to be;
with the sixfold base as condition, contact comes to be;
with contact as condition, feeling comes to be;
with feeling as condition, craving comes to be;
with craving as condition, grasping comes to be;
with grasping as condition, being comes to be;
with being as condition, birth comes to be;
with birth as condition, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and
despair come to be.
This is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.
Then, on
realizing its significance, the Lord uttered on that occasion this inspired
utterance:
When things become manifest To the ardent meditating
brahman, All his doubts then vanish since he understands Each thing along with
its cause.