BDHA-NOTHING BUT THE MIND

citta, vijnana, and manas.


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 The import of this significant declaration can be understood in the context of those suttas in which the Buddha defines the concept of the world.

The 'world,' for the Buddha, arises in the six sense-spheres Hence its cessation too, is to be experienced there, in the cessation of the six sense-spheres (salaayatananirodha).

"I will teach you, monks, how the world comes to be and passes away... What monks, is the arising of the world?

Dependent on eye and forms, arises visual consciousness.

The concurrence of the three is contact.

Conditioned by contact is feeling.

Conditioned by feeling, craving.

Conditioned by craving, grasping.

Conditioned by grasping, becoming.

Conditioned by becoming, birth.

And conditioned by birth, arise decay, death, grief lamentation, suffering, despair.

This is the arising of the world.

And what, monks, is the passing away of the world? Dependent on the eye and forms arise visual consciousness.

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