{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn12-15.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn12-15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn12-15.htm","text":"\"By & large, Kaccayana, this world is supported by (takes as its object) a polarity, that of existence & non-existence. But when one sees the origination of the world as it actually is with right discernment, 'non-existence' with reference to the world does not occur to one. When one sees the cessation of the world as it actually is with right discernment, 'existence' with reference to the world does not occur to one.\n\"By & large, Kaccayana, this world is in bondage to attachments, clingings (sustenances), & biases. But one such as this does not get involved with or cling to these attachments, clingings, fixations of awareness, biases, or latent tendencies; nor is he resolved on 'my self.' He has no uncertainty or doubt that, when there is arising, only stress is arising; and that when there is passing away, only stress is passing away. In this, one's knowledge is independent of others. It is to this extent, Kaccayana, that there is right view.\n\"'Everything exists': That is one extreme. 'Everything doesn't exist': That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma via the middle:\n\"From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications.\nFrom fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness.\nFrom consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form.\nFrom name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media.\nFrom the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contact.\nFrom contact as a requisite condition comes feeling.\nFrom feeling as a requisite condition comes craving.\nFrom craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance.\nFrom clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming.\nFrom becoming as a requisite condition comes birth.\nFrom birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play.\nSuch is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering.\n\"Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications.\nFrom the cessation of fabrications comes the cessation of consciousness.\nFrom the cessation of consciousness comes the cessation of name-&-form.\nFrom the cessation of name-&-form comes the cessation of the six sense media.\nFrom the cessation of the six sense media comes the cessation of contact.\nFrom the cessation of contact comes the cessation of feeling.\nFrom the cessation of feeling comes the cessation of craving.\nFrom the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance.\nFrom the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming.\nFrom the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth.\nFrom the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease.\nSuch is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering.\"","title":"SN XII.15: Kaccayanagotta Sutta","type":"page"}