{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn12.20/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn12.20","id":"suttacentral_sn12.20","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.20/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, I will teach you dependent origination and dependently originated phenomena. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cAnd what is dependent origination? Rebirth is a requirement for old age and death. Whether Realized Ones arise or not, this law of nature persists, this regularity of natural principles, this surety of natural principles, specific conditionality. A Realized One awakens to this and comprehends it, then he explains, teaches, asserts, establishes, clarifies, analyzes, and discloses it. \u2018Look,\u2019 he says, \u2018Rebirth is a requirement for old age and death.\u2019 Continued existence is a requirement for rebirth \u2026 Grasping is a requirement for continued existence \u2026 Craving is a requirement for grasping \u2026 Feeling is a requirement for craving \u2026 Contact is a requirement for feeling \u2026 The six sense fields are requirements for contact \u2026 Name and form are requirements for the six sense fields \u2026 Consciousness is a requirement for name and form \u2026 Choices are a requirement for consciousness \u2026 Ignorance is a requirement for choices. Whether Realized Ones arise or not, this law of nature persists, this regularity of natural principles, this surety of natural principles, specific conditionality. A Realized One awakens to this and comprehends it, then he explains, teaches, asserts, establishes, clarifies, analyzes, and discloses it. \u2018Look,\u2019 he says, \u2018Ignorance is a requirement for choices.\u2019 So the fact that this is real, not unreal, not otherwise; the specific conditionality of it: this is called dependent origination. And what are the dependently originated phenomena? Old age and death are impermanent, conditioned, dependently originated, liable to end, vanish, fade away, and cease. Rebirth \u2026 Continued existence \u2026 Grasping \u2026 Craving \u2026 Feeling \u2026 Contact \u2026 The six sense fields \u2026 Name and form \u2026 Consciousness \u2026 Choices \u2026 Ignorance is impermanent, conditioned, dependently originated, liable to end, vanish, fade away, and cease. These are called the dependently originated phenomena. When a noble disciple has clearly seen with right wisdom this dependent origination and these dependently originated phenomena as they are, it will be quite impossible for them to turn back to the first beginning, thinking: \u2018Did I exist in the past? Did I not exist in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? After being what, what did I become in the past?\u2019 Or to turn forward to the final end, thinking: \u2018Will I exist in the future? Will I not exist in the future? What will I be in the future? How will I be in the future? After being what, what will I become in the future?\u2019 Or to be undecided about the present, thinking: \u2018Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? This sentient being\u2014where did it come from? And where will it go?\u2019 Why is that? Because that noble disciple has clearly seen with right wisdom this dependent origination and these dependently originated phenomena as they are.\u201d","title":"Conditions","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":494}