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Friday, 19 July 2019

Dependent Origination


“If this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist.”

12 links
1) Blind woman: ignorance
2) Potter: mental formations (potter forms a shape out of clay setting into motion
3) Monkey: consciousness (monkey mind = unsettled mind)
4) People sailing in a boat: the boat represents form and the people represent mental aggregates
5) House with six windows: the six windows represent the six senses: eye, ear, nose, tongue, touch, and mind.
6) Embracing couple: Contact
7) Eye pierced by an arrow: “Feeling”
8) Drinking alcohol: addictions of “Craving” which arose as a result of “feeling.”
9) Monkey reaching for fruit: “Grasping” or “wanting.”
10) A pregnant woman: representing “becoming” as she is just about to give birth.
11) A mother with child: “Birth”, which ultimately,
12) ageing and dying and death

 

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