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**usacomm** · 10-21-2010, 10:46 PM

Hi Element

The great delight of the Buddha's teaching is that as you practice more deeper levels of meaning arise, bit like layers in an onion

I have always considered Dependant Origination as a description of the process of the mind body continuum, based on ignorance mental formations are constructed, the conciousness recognises the criteria for the formation, for instance in my case a craving for peanuts, peanuts occur in conciousness and mind body (Namma- rupa) in attuned via the six sense doors to peanuts ( a definite surge in my case) contact follows with a pleasant feeling, craving most definitely follows, quickly accompanied by Clinging, which triggers the anticipation of becoming, which triggers birth in the form of peanut consumption, quickly followed by suffering in my case in the form of severe indigestion.

With more wiser mental formation my ignorance is dispelled a little and the knowledge of the suffering my peanut addiction causes, ignorance recedes, mental formation for peanuts is modified, conciousness recedes etc....

So for me SN 12.69 resonates with and helps me understand a little more perhaps
Thanks for bringing it up as a thread

McKmike

10-21-2010, 10:46 PM	#3
usacomm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 554 Senior Member	Hi Element The great delight of the Buddha's teaching is that as you practice more deeper levels of meaning arise, bit like layers in an onion I have always considered Dependant Origination as a description of the process of the mind body continuum, based on ignorance mental formations are constructed, the conciousness recognises the criteria for the formation, for instance in my case a craving for peanuts, peanuts occur in conciousness and mind body (Namma- rupa) in attuned via the six sense doors to peanuts ( a definite surge in my case) contact follows with a pleasant feeling, craving most definitely follows, quickly accompanied by Clinging, which triggers the anticipation of becoming, which triggers birth in the form of peanut consumption, quickly followed by suffering in my case in the form of severe indigestion. With more wiser mental formation my ignorance is dispelled a little and the knowledge of the suffering my peanut addiction causes, ignorance recedes, mental formation for peanuts is modified, conciousness recedes etc.... So for me SN 12.69 resonates with and helps me understand a little more perhaps Thanks for bringing it up as a thread McKmike
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