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Is there any elaboration on this?

SimplifySimplify Veteran
edited July 2010 in Buddhism Basics
fabrications have ignorance as their prerequisite,
consciousness has fabrications as its prerequisite,
name-&-form has consciousness as its prerequisite,
the six sense media have name-&-form as their prerequisite,
contact has the six sense media as its prerequisite,
feeling has contact as its prerequisite,
craving has feeling as its prerequisite,
clinging has craving as its prerequisite,
becoming has clinging as its prerequisite,
birth has becoming as its prerequisite,
stress & suffering have birth as their prerequisite,
conviction has stress & suffering as its prerequisite,
joy has conviction as its prerequisite,
rapture has joy as its prerequisite,
serenity has rapture as its prerequisite,
pleasure has serenity as its prerequisite,
concentration has pleasure as its prerequisite,
knowledge & vision of things as they actually are present has concentration as its prerequisite,
disenchantment has knowledge & vision of things as they actually are present as its prerequisite,
dispassion has disenchantment as its prerequisite,
release has dispassion as its prerequisite,
knowledge of ending has release as its prerequisite."

I'd like to find the specific definitions of many of the words used.

Comments

  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    edited July 2010
    Simplify wrote: »
    I'd like to find the specific definitions of many of the words used.

    It seems like an even more elaborate extention of Dependent Origination of suffering than Paita Sampuda... Im not sure what else to say:) Im sure others here will have..
  • SimplifySimplify Veteran
    edited July 2010
    awesome that led me to what I was looking for :)
  • jinzangjinzang Veteran
    edited July 2010
    You'll find the definitions of these terms in abhidharma (abhidhamma).
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