Dwelling at Savatthi. There the Blessed One said to the monks: "In one who keeps focusing on the allure of clingable phenomena (or: phenomena that offer sustenance = the five aggregates), craving develops. -From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. -From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. -From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. -From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origin of this entire mass of suffering & stress. |
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Just as if a great mass of fire of ten, twenty, thirty or forty cartloads of timber were burning, and into it a man would time & again throw dried grass, dried cow dung, & dried timber, so that the great mass of fire — thus nourished, thus sustained — would burn for a long, long time. In the same way, in one who keeps focusing on the allure of clingable phenomena, craving develops. -From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. -From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. -From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. -From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origin of this entire mass of suffering & stress. |
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-Now, in one who keeps focusing on the drawbacks of clingable phenomena, craving ceases. -From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance. -From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. -From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. -From the cessation of birth, then aging, illness & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering & stress. |
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Just as if a great mass of fire of ten, twenty, thirty or forty cartloads of timber were burning, into which a man simply would not time & again throw dried grass, dried cow dung, or dried timber, so that the great mass of fire — its original sustenance being consumed, and no other being offered — would, without nutriment, go out. In the same way, in one who keeps focusing on the drawbacks of clingable phenomena, craving ceases. -From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance. -From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. -From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. -From the cessation of birth, then aging, illness & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering & stress. |
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Cập nhập ngày: Thứ Sáu 08-11-2006 Kỹ thuật tŕnh bày: Minh Hạnh & Thiện Pháp |