Twelve of conditions.

 

A) INTRODUCTION

Twelve of conditions (the Second Decade of conditions) is presenting special teachings Origination (paticcasamuppàda) (1). This teaching by the Bodhisattva Siddhartha (Siddhartha) be certified under the Bodhi tree for 49 days thinking meditation, from which he became a fully enlightened being.

Twelve of conditions, or dependent origination, is a very peculiar doctrine, is determining the difference between Buddhism with other religions. It is the core of the Buddhist worldview, consistently mentioned in all the scriptures. Recognizing the causal teachings twelve students of Buddhism will help understand better the issues such as industrial, reincarnation rebirth, cause and effect ... at the same time suggest a positive life direction for each individual in the present.

B) CONTENTS:

I / Definitions:

1 - What is predestined?

This is the decisive factor, the conditions do arise, the presence of a current.  Coral Coast is barbaric conditions, making human impact arises. For example grain of rice is, factors such as soil, moisture, sunlight, people are conditioned to sow grain ... (who) germination of rice development. Relationship Profile - charming indeed complex and subtle than many, especially in the world's consciousness, and, say enough is predestined person - charming - results.

"Predestined" in "twelve causal" implied "'s origination": reliance on each other that arise, the subject arises, is precisely "because this is present, the other is present , so this one is not present, the other is not present, due to this birth, that arises; killed by this, that ceases. "

2 - What is Twelve predestined?

In the Samyutta II (Samyutta Nikaya), the Buddha of the twelve notes of conditions (dependent origination) as follows: "Due to ignorance, commit born, as a result of that method of birth; due form, have the mentality born; do mentality, have students record entry; due to continental integration, have student contact, by contact, affinity born, by whom, there are secondary, as players, have biotic, do exist, have born born, by birth or with aging and death, grief, lamentation, pain, grief, living brain, or the whole aggregates difficult birth. This is called dependent origination. "

"Due to the extinction (2) greed, ignorance completely, killing act; due to official action should kill kill, by killing method should kill mentality; ...; birth and death due to aging and death, sorrow, suffering , favor, kill brain. Such is the cessation whole dried aggregates. brethren, so called annihilation ". (Pp. 1-2)

Twelve karmic Buddha defines two trends: trends arise (also known as flows: ignorance, born out ...) and the extinction direction (also called completely kill: by cessation greed, ignorance should act completely kill ...). When twelve-established causal (warm up), meaning that the five aggregates (3) warm up, and this is the dimension of the suffering of samsara. When twelve with this chain is broken (annihilation), the structure of the aggregates disintegrate also, and this is the path of peace and liberation. In aggregate it is the structure of man and life. Human existence which speaks of twelve causal direction is set start operation.

According to the presentation, ignorance is seen as the root, the source, the core of the twelve causes and conditions. However, do not misunderstand ignorance is the cause of the first chain link. As the Buddha taught, ignorance is predestined by birth, are interdependent. When there are causal (positive), then ignorance will transform into position, wisdom, here is the meaning "kill ignorance, intelligent student".

Just a little note on the number of entries (12 spending part) Origination of this form. The definition above quote from Central II, is a most typical presentation, including both full-spend part 12. In some other texts, such as economic Coast University (School of Business Department II), four Coast business (Agama Where I) ... Buddha presented includes only 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12 is the most complete spent part. This issue is of Buddhist Studies competent meticulously analyzed, and all were agreed, some 12 detailed categories are determined through the contents of the Buddha meditating under the Bodhi tree. This is the kind of accurate, complete and consistent with the thinking of most people. The difference in the number of items of expenditure only represents part of teachers of flexible methods of the Buddha, he depends on the level of the listener, but in short or full. This will be clarified in the section on the operation of the twelve causes and conditions.

Subjects heard doctrine is predestined twelve people, because heavy attachment and clinging, so Buddha always emphasized this part of the costs, particularly in the direction, path annihilated - liberation. When you love (or whatever a somewhat detailed) arises immediately causal structure formation 12, and vice versa, as part of charity or defense spending (or spending any part) eradicated immediately with a chain leash 12 causal disintegration. It is also significant, but in the General Comment states that Pi Ba Sa, said Origination is also a detailed section, two, three, ... up to 12 spend part also.

II) The meaning of causal twelve elements:

1 - Ignorance (Ignorance): confusion, your crazy mind, or in other words, not knowing the truth about existence is as dependent arising, impermanence and can not have an independent self, unchanging.

2 - Action (saṅkhāra): motivation, action will create work (the practice) of body, speech and mind.

3 - Consciousness (viňňāna): human perception of the world through the eyes organ function as (cognitive), ear (consciousness), nose (an official), tongue (gustatory consciousness), body (body form) and mind (consciousness).

4 - Mentality (NAMA - rùpa): Excellent is the physics and physiology, psychology is the name. With human, material and color as the body, the senses and their functions; identity is dependent center (mental), as exposure, attention, memory, sensation, perception and investment.

5 - sixfold (Chabbithana): there are six places called origin, is the interaction between 6 units (= 6 internal origin: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind) and their object is 6 ceiling (= 6 foreign origin configuration, sound, taste, smell, touch and ideas - France).

6 - Promotion (Phassa): the encounter, exposure, interference between the units (subjects) and ceiling (object). Specifically, the main contact is the contact between people and the world through perceptual 6 agencies. Note that, when the knowledge generated by physical contact with the eye (color ceiling), then the call is aware that new consciousness ... So, meet the emotional, interference between units, ceiling and knowledge .

7 - Feeling (vedana) is feeling. In other words is the psychological reactions arise when physical contact with the eyes, ears exposed to the sound ... exposure to ideas (methods).

There are three kinds of feeling: pleasant feelings (pleasures), unpleasant sensations (breathlessness) and neutral feelings (non-dried non-touch). This is material that people usually take to build the value called happiness and suffering, unhappiness. In fact, we are so interdependent, ever-changing, there is no fixed order calculation.

8 - Craving (Craving): Sanskrit is craving or desire: the bottlenecks, love, attachment, including craving, formless identity and loving kindness.

9 - Prime (upadana): enough is known attachment: the jam on, cling, wearing tight of mind on an object.

10 - Becoming (Bhava) process to form interdependence, including sexual friendship, excellence and immaterial property ownership.

11 - Birth (Jati): the birth, to create, to appear. Born in here is not the baby's birth, which is the attainment of the components (the five aggregates), achievement of origin (the perceptual organs and their functions).

12 - Lao Tzu (Jaramrana): depression, decline, greater longevity, disintegrate, annihilate, death. With human lives, Lao Tzu was expressed in the phenomenon: loose teeth, gray hair, wrinkled skin, organs weaken and die perception.

III) The operator of the twelve causes and conditions:

Through the detailed meaning of section twelve of conditions, especially spending part of continental integration, again confirming that this form is the doctrine of dependent origination talking about humans, because only people with the full 6 bodies perceptual enough. Therefore, when talking about the operation of the twelve causes and conditions are also talking about a human operator.

Because not recognize existing (human and world) is predestined harmony that arises, evolving epidemic and not a permanent self, the illusion of a human self: this is what I and here's what my (Ignorance). Main illusions and this unconsciously stirs the mind, give rise to craving, clinging ... And that is the motive for the actions of body, word and mind (Acts). Every time the notion of a self arising visas available. The existence of consciousness necessarily requires the presence of a cognitive subject and object perception (Mentality, sixfold). When base, ceiling and informal meet (sixfold), the Promotion arise. Feeling (Tho) were right there when needed, ceilings and other official interference; sensation flowed like a waterfall without a power which could be prevented, because of the nature of feeling is like. Life including psychological reactions such objects is sad, happy, love, hate, neutral ... Feeling comfortable will give rise to craving (Ai). In Ai implies attachment and it is manifested in various forms corresponding to the realm of consciousness (Friends). Partial ownership created, and each time have had Born, then the situation weakened, disintegration, loss will act as a natural consequence: that is aging and death, grief, lamentation, pain, grief, brain, or dry pain is present. It is the operation of twelve causal direction arises (flows) - This afternoon operators is motivated by ignorance and craving and clinging. In other words, this is the path of suffering and rebirth led governed by ignorance.

In the twelve notes of conditions, not only raised the Buddha path set start, as analyzed above, which he has shown cause and initiate collective annihilation path (complete kill). Every time a detailed annihilated any part of a chain with 12 chain (causal), immediately dissolve it. However, the human craving and clinging is the hardest, so cessation of craving or attachment shall within twelve causal chain no reason to exist. That is the meaning of the Buddha's teachings: "Ai kill nirvana".

The operation of twelve causal not simply a process of forming life (since I fear the notion of existence to the last breath), but the operation of it (direction established - flow) says etiology of human presence (and life) it is not restricted by time and space. Ever craving, grasping or cessation of ignorance are not the people still affected by the operation of twelve causal - that is still in the vicious samsara, suffering endless pain - when paragraph 12 of conditions kill, meaning annihilated whole dried aggregates.

IV) Some explanation of the twelve causes and conditions:

Twelve of conditions, or dependent origination, is the principle of all existence. It is true should not be limited in space and time. Buddha asserted that: "Coastal living is the essence of all existence, the truth does not change whether the Tathagata appears or does not appear". An existing small matter of the atomic nucleus as large as the universe is no exception to this principle. With such characteristics, twelve karmic teachings can be used to illuminate many other issues in life like reincarnation, depending causal ... according to the viewing angle of interpretation. There are only 4 ways to introduce common interpretation.

1 - general format:

"Because this is present, the other is present, so this one is not present, the other is not present, due to this birth, that arises; killed by this, that ceases." (State Department of Business, tr.291). This format is presenting an overview, summary and simple as the Buddha said. It was seen as a principle for all existence in the phenomenal world. More precisely, if the twelve causal origination own kind of people, the general form about the nature of the phenomenal world, especially the world do not have the knowledge (Gas world).

2 - Three generations of two floors of causality (cause and effect Tam egg):

Three generations of the past, present and future (future). According to this interpretation, and out of ignorance of the past, current expenditure includes 8 sections (from food to property); birth and death belong to the future aging. On the other hand, consciousness, identity, enter the continent is considered the current results of the past is ignorant and out, this is the first causal story. The expenditure share life, love, and friendship is the player's current performance and future is born old to death here is causal class Monday. The collaboration between these two causal layers created with predestined relationships seem tight, the continuity of the flow of time: past - present - future. Through this interpretation, the twelve tenets dump karmic reincarnation to explain clearly demonstrated. However, as the division will easily lead to a misunderstanding, ignorance and act as only in the past, and expenditures for the next 8 only in the present, birth and death, the aging of the future (! ). Indeed, in the present (and even in parts per lead) were present ignorance. As a part of existing spending, immediately, the existence of eleven spending the rest. If any part of a detailed linkage is absent, the causal order 12 detailed sections collapse. As analyzed, twelve is a causal continuum, interlaced, does not depend on time (past, present or future). This explanation accidentally crude and simplified twelve karmic doctrine - a doctrine which is considered very deep and delicate clothing.

3 - Cause and effect at the same time:

When you say, "Because ignorance born out ..." should not be understood as due to ignorance born. Between ignorance and operating ... is a causal relationship linear, unilateral, meaning that the spending portion of the existing twelve causal factors depending on time (before - after). This explanation says that, even in a moment (4) had the existence of the 12 detailed full part. When the idea of ​​a distorted ego and my (self) is present, immediately present continuous causal chain: the will to create work (out), perceptual discrimination and attachment (knowledge) .. . come aging and death, grief, lamentation, pain, grief, brain. Each has a detailed section is just as effective for expenditures for other people, they nurture each other.

4 - The existence of a human life (network based):

A third factor in the decision to form a fetus is now official existence reincarnate. This is now the result of ignorance and practice in the past. Conception stage is time and matter are present. Sixfold stage fetus is fully formed units. Infants nursed stage is the stage of contact. Children aged 3-5 are formed at life. From here earlier, according to this interpretation, the expression of the past now, children are not evil intention to create a present now. When the kids are happy, sad, popular, love to hate ... it's time, capital, and tangible to the stage where this is the karma kids to put themselves to form a new network in the future (birth, aging death ).

V) Some implications from twelve karmic teachings:

1 - Humans (and life) is the existence of twelve causal structure, so there is no independent self and permanence. Man is the master of his life, by twelve karmic teachings show the truth: "I can not find a creator, a Brahman, or the other, do all of the life cycle rotation ; only the unfolding phenomenon, depending on the conditions "(5).

2 - People and life is selfless, not self-love that there is a (very often), so the potential for Everyone always a possibility of enlightenment, and life always have the opportunity to become better building beautiful.

3 - When a causal spent twelve eleven operating costs mean that the rest also operate. This speaks usage between "a" and the "all", beyond the concept of space and time, which can confirm the existence of the divine kind.

C) Conclusion:

1 - Twelve karmic doctrine of man and tell the people listening audience. As human seriously entangled in ignorance, craving and clinging to the Buddha special emphasis on spending this when people practice guidelines for the purpose of liberation, enlightenment.

2 - Twelve causal, or dependent origination, not a political doctrine to the ego or to explain the world, but here is the truth and is a practice of liberation for practical people. Therefore, this is the fundamental doctrine of right (the first in the Noble Eightfold Path). In other words, the right view is a comprehensive view, as it's about the law is conditioned by birth.

3 - No-self or liberation, nirvana is not an empty state, which is a basket  the idea of ​​a permanent self. In other words, it is the present state of ignorance, craving and clinging.

4 - All values ​​in life is relative, because life is interdependent, not always fluent and able to grasp.

5 - Existence or life of the existing multilateral relationships between people and people, between people and the social environment, natural environment ... When a person is living well is contributing build a good society, and vice versa. Each person must take responsibility for the community, by the community building was protecting his personal.

6 - Twelve causal, or general doctrine of dependent origination, is a doctrine extremely delicate and difficult to understand, because people already familiar with the way of thinking from the wife for her own ego. Want to have a correct understanding of this doctrine requires observation and thought about it often. Thinking and practice karmic teachings twelve (Vertical cessation), will take steps to make sure that the practitioner brings to life a generous, selfless, liberation and peace in the present. Because as Buddha's teachings: "Who is that seen Origination 

France, who saw France is that Buddha (I). "Seeing Buddha is the ultimate reality show, beyond all constraints of selfhood world - is limited by ignorance, craving and attachment are.

Notes:

(1) Also known as Coast born, Y tha start: reliance on other factors that arise, formation, existence, dependent arising.

(2) Eliminating, let go, metabolism (Pali: uccheda)

(3) Shape (sharp), sensation (feeling), perceptual impression of (ideal), will create work (practice), and the existence of consciousness (knowledge).

(4) very short interval between the two events, much smaller than the unit of time is seconds (Pali: Khana).

(5) Comments Purity (Visuddhimagga). END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.12/3/2014.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).