Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN33: Connected Discourses with Vacchagotta

SN33:6–10 Because of Not Seeing

1… "It is, Vaccha, because of not seeing form … feeling … perception … volitional formations … consciousness, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation that those various speculative views arise in the world …" [n.296] Spk explains each of the causes as a synonym of not knowing. The Pali ablatives are: adassanā, anabhisamayā, ananubodhā , appaṭivedhā, asallakkhaṇā, anupalakkhaṇā, apaccupalakkhaṇā , asamapekkhaṇā, appaccupekkhaṇā, apaccakkhakammā.

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho vacchagotto paribbājako bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: "ko nu kho, bho gotama, hetu, ko paccayo, yānimāni anekavihitāni diṭṭhigatāni loke uppajjanti – sassato lokoti vā, asassato lokoti vā … pe … neva hoti na na hoti tathāgato paraṁ maraṇāti vā"ti? "Rūpe kho, vaccha, adassanā … pe … rūpanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya adassanā … pe … vedanāya … saññāya … saṅkhāresu kho, vaccha, adassanā … pe … viññāṇe kho, vaccha, adassanā … pe … viññāṇanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya adassanā … pe … .


Dasamaṁ.

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