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**DiatryDal** · 07-28-2012, 04:50 PM

The Buddhism that Gautama Buddha taught is clearly dualistic. Hardly surprising. Everyone was a dualist back then.

Except Gautama Buddha.

It's good, monks, that you understand the Dhamma taught by me in this way, for in many ways I have said of dependently co-arisen consciousness: 'Apart from a requisite condition, there is no coming-into-play of consciousness.'

MN 38 Dependent on eye & forms, eye-consciousness arises.

Dependent on ear & sounds, ear-consciousness arises...

Dependent on nose & aromas, nose-consciousness arises...

Dependent on tongue & flavors, tongue-consciousness arises...

Dependent on body & tactile sensations, body-consciousness arises...

Dependent on intellect & mind-objects, intellect-consciousness arises.

MN 18 Were someone to say, 'I will describe a coming, a going, a passing away, an arising, a growth, an increase or a proliferation of consciousness apart from form, from feeling, from perception, from fabrications,' that would be impossible.

SN 22.53 I will give you an analogy; for there are cases where it is through the use of an analogy that intelligent people can understand the meaning of what is being said. It is as if two sheaves of reeds were to stand leaning against one another. In the same way, from mentality-&-materially as a requisite condition comes consciousness, from consciousness as a requisite condition comes mentality-&-materially.

SN 12.67

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DiatryDal Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	The Buddhism that Gautama Buddha taught is clearly dualistic. Hardly surprising. Everyone was a dualist back then. Except Gautama Buddha. It's good, monks, that you understand the Dhamma taught by me in this way, for in many ways I have said of dependently co-arisen consciousness: 'Apart from a requisite condition, there is no coming-into-play of consciousness.' MN 38 Dependent on eye & forms, eye-consciousness arises. Dependent on ear & sounds, ear-consciousness arises... Dependent on nose & aromas, nose-consciousness arises... Dependent on tongue & flavors, tongue-consciousness arises... Dependent on body & tactile sensations, body-consciousness arises... Dependent on intellect & mind-objects, intellect-consciousness arises. MN 18 Were someone to say, 'I will describe a coming, a going, a passing away, an arising, a growth, an increase or a proliferation of consciousness apart from form, from feeling, from perception, from fabrications,' that would be impossible. SN 22.53 I will give you an analogy; for there are cases where it is through the use of an analogy that intelligent people can understand the meaning of what is being said. It is as if two sheaves of reeds were to stand leaning against one another. In the same way, from mentality-&-materially as a requisite condition comes consciousness, from consciousness as a requisite condition comes mentality-&-materially. SN 12.67
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