{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn12.39/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn12.39","id":"suttacentral_sn12.39","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.39/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, what you intend or plan, and what you have underlying tendencies for become a support for the continuation of consciousness. When this support exists, consciousness becomes established. When consciousness is established and grows, name and form are conceived. Name and form are requirements for the six sense fields. The six sense fields are requirements for contact. Contact is a requirement for feeling. \u2026 craving \u2026 grasping \u2026 continued existence \u2026 rebirth \u2026 old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress come to be. That is how this entire mass of suffering originates. If you don\u2019t intend or plan, but still have underlying tendencies, this becomes a support for the continuation of consciousness. When this support exists, consciousness becomes established. When consciousness is established and grows, name and form are conceived. Name and form are requirements for the six sense fields. \u2026 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates. If you don\u2019t intend or plan or have underlying tendencies, this doesn\u2019t become a support for the continuation of consciousness. With no support, consciousness is not established. When consciousness is not established and doesn\u2019t grow, name and form are not conceived. When name and form cease, the six sense fields cease. \u2026 That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.\u201d","title":"Intention (2nd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":216}