No internal Agent but just Dependence ... !!!

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Who or What creates the Pain ?

 

They asked the blessed Buddha:Is suffering created by oneself ? He answered: Not so! Is suffering created by another ? He answered: Not so! Is suffering created both by oneself & another? Not so! Is suffering created neither by oneself nor another? Not so!

Suffering arise in Dependence... ! Dependent on what... ?Dependent on Contact..., do all suffering arise...Without contact it is impossible to experience any suffering!

 

Dependent on Contact do Feeling arise.Dependent on Feeling do Craving arise.Dependent on Craving do Clinging arise.Dependent on Clinging do Becoming arise.Dependent on Becoming do Birth arise.Dependent on Birth do Decay & Death arise.Dependent on Decay & Death do Suffering arise.

Note: Death here is both death of the moment & death at life's end.There is no agent nor 'doer' nor 'observer neither inside nor outside...There is this passing sequence of momentary causally dependent states.The prior mental moment conditioning the next and this the next etc...Quite impersonal is this flux. Not anything worth clinging to !!!

 

Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya II 32-43http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Friendship is the Greatest ! and the entire Noble Life...

 

Bhikkhu Samāhita, Sri Lanka.

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