Requisite Conditions Paccaya Sutta (SN 12:20)
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('â', Look.â From birth as a requisite condition comes aging-&-death. "From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth.⦠"From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming.⦠"From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance.⦠"From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving.⦠"From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling.⦠"From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contact.⦠"From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media.⦠"From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form.⦠"From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness.⦠"From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. Whether or not there is the arising of Tathṅgatas, this property stands—this regularity of the Dhamma, this orderliness of the Dhamma, this this/that conditionality. The Tathṅgata directly awakens to that, breaks through to that. Directly awakening & breaking through to that, he declares it, teaches it, describes it, sets it forth. He reveals it, explains it, makes it plain, & says, ),
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('â', Look.â From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. Whatâs there in this way is a reality, not an unreality, not other than what it seems, conditioned by this/that. This is called dependent co-arising. "And what are dependently co-arisen phenomena? Aging-&-death are dependently co-arisen phenomena: inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen, subject to ending, subject to passing away, subject to fading, subject to cessation. "Birth is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"Becoming is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"Clinging/sustenance is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"Craving is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"Feeling is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"Contact is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"The six sense media are dependently co-arisen phenomena.⦠"Name-&-form is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"Consciousness is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.⦠"Fabrications are dependently co-arisen phenomena.⦠"Ignorance is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon: inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen, subject to ending, subject to passing away, subject to fading, subject to cessation. These are called dependently co-arisen phenomena. "When a disciple of the noble ones has seen well with right discernment this dependent co-arising & these dependently co-arisen phenomena as they have come to be, it is not possible that he would run after the past, thinking, ),
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('â', Was I in the past? Was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what was I in the past?â or that he would run after the future, thinking, ),
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('â', Shall I be in the future? Shall I not be in the future? What shall I be in the future? How shall I be in the future? Having been what, what shall I be in the future?â or that he would be inwardly perplexed about the immediate present, thinking, ),
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('â', Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound?â Such a thing is not possible. Why is that? Because the disciple of the noble ones has seen well with right discernment this dependent co-arising & these dependently co-arisen phenomena as they have come to be." See also: MN 2; MN 38; SN 22:47; AN 4:199–200; Ud 5:7; Ud 6:5–6 - --> - - - -