[soydaykam]

Comments on the sutta anyone ?

An excellent sutta. I must say that I sympathise with the beleaguered bhikkhu Sāti and it would be false to claim that I have not also considered things from that point of view. A belief in self is something that runs deep and is not lightly dismissed. It is the articulation of the process of becoming, a kind of logical conclusion.

In countering this premise, the sutta does a great job of clarifying dependent origination. We can juxtapose the premise of a transmigrating awareness against the statement that "consciousness is reckoned by the particular condition dependent upon which it arises".

This means, that no consciousness, separate from its object, can ever be established. All facets of awareness, however we designate them, arise within the process of dependent origination.

In other words, there is no 'being' driving this - no 'thing' outside the process to be rescued or liberated. And that's a tough cookie for anyone to swallow, I figure.

Ignorance is the culprit which powers the process. Comprehending and seeing this is the key to deactivating the thing, to switching the lights off once and for all, as I understand it (please correct me, if I'm wrong here).

It concludes:
but remember the bhikkhu Sāti, son of a fisherman, as caught up in a vast net of craving, in the trammel of craving. And me too, still hanging in there with him