Friday, April 05, 2024

12 Nidanas

Rereading How Karma Works: The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising by Geshe Sonan Rinchen. The moon is symbol of the cessation of suffering the 3rd Noble Truth. I get excited when I see the moon when I sit down to meditate. 

Of course there is the great art that is the wheel of life:





Fundamental ignorance (Pali: avidya)
Formation (sankhara)
Consciousness (vinnana)
Name and form (namarupa)
Sense faculties (salayatana)
Contact (phassa)
Feeling or sensation (vedana)
Craving or thirst (tanha)
Clinging or grasping (upadana)
Becoming or worldly existence (bhava)
Birth or becoming (jati)
Old age and death (jaramarana)



Links:

24 Nidana meditation on Free Buddhist Audio. 

This contains the 12 positive nidanas. AN 11.2 is considered a source of the 12 positive nidanas. Jayarava Atwood has written about it.

Sangharakshita on the 24 Nidanas.

Sangharakshita: The Psychology of Spiritual Development

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