I Review: Working on Pattica Samupada (Dependent Origination)
- Paticca Samupada: How the mind transforms sensory data into a self, selfing story selfing.
- So ignorance is not clearly seeing. Not clearly seeing what? Not clearly seeing with the lens the three characteristics. Not seeing through the lens of the 4 Noble truths. Three characteristics: life is imperfect, impermanent and impersonal
- An investigation of the links of Paticca Samupada is intended to deconstruct the misperception that there is an enduring and autonomous self. he body are also realized.
- Yet we need to live in this world, called the mundane reality.
- In the discourses, contemplation of the impermanent nature of the links of Dependent Origination, and thereby of oneself, stands out as a particularly prominent cause for gaining realization. The Buddha spoke of this particular contemplation as his “lion’s roar”.
- The reason underlying the contemplating the impermanent nature of the these links is that it directly undermines all conceit and “I”- or “mine”-making. Conversely, to the extent to which one is no longer under the influence of “I” or “mine” notions in regard to these links, any change or alteration of the aggregates will not lead to more suffering.
- In practical terms, contemplating the arising and passing away can take place with challenges in the body like the cycle of breaths or circulation of the blood, the change of feelings from pleasant to unpleasant, changes in thoughts or reactions etc
- There is a “bridge” between the unprocessed stimulation provided by the sense bases, being manifested by the functions of Feeling and Perception.
- The goal of Buddhist practice is to intervene in this process by developing mindful awareness (sati) to observe feelings and perceptions without craving or clinging. This breaks the chain of cause and effect that leads to suffering.
- Last time perception: Perception is about The activity of recognition, identification, and classification. Perception can be problematic because the process of classification encourages us to see things as ‘permanent’ when in fact they constantly change.
- Last week we discussed the conjoining of perception and feeling. contact, feeling, perception, thought, and attention. What we feel, we perceive. Then we think of what is perceived. Thinking begins the process of judgment that leads to mental
- proliferation.
- Feeling Refers to the particular quality of every sense experience which has the quality of pleasantness, unpleasantness or neutrality. Sounds, tastes, emotions, sights, sensations, odors, thoughts, each has an associated feeling tone. Feeling is produced by contact which arises with the concurrence of perception.
- What the world calls happiness, I call suffering, What the world calls suffering, I call happiness, The Buddha
- , distinction can open more subtlety in our meditative practice……
- It can lead to a dramatically different understanding of happiness freedom and understanding. The message we get is that happiness is about our accumulation of pleasant sense experiences …..
- The Buddha there are hidden dangers in relying on these happy sense experiences
- Feeling ; Buddha placed this in the Satipatthana, 5 aggregates subject to clinging, and Dependent Co arising
- This is not an emotion or physical sensations or attitude
- Vedena means more precisely such a powerful asset to practice
- Such a master key to reval and unlock conditioning and hence suffering
- Tone: pleasantness unpleasantness neutrality that airs
- Happens with every sense contact
- Arises with physical or mental phenomena
- Conditions mental conditioners and actions (karma)
- Sallatha Sutta, The Arrow
Resources (See previous posts for more resources)
Ambrosia, Gloria Taraniya. The Experience of Feeling : (Insight into the Five Aggregates) https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/article/the-experience-of-feeling-insight-into-the-aggregates/ Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Insight Journal, The Barre Center, Spring 2000
Brach, T. The Lions Roar. http://blog.tarabrach.com/2012/03/lions-roar.html#:~:text=In%20the%20Buddhist%20tradition%2C%20the,described%20as%20the%20lion’s%20roar.
Chodron, Pema, When Things Fall Apart. Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Shambala. Boulder 2016.
12 Links of Dependent Origination: 12 Nidanas in Buddhism https://bstcthanka.com/blogs/wheel-of-life/12-links-of-dependent-origination Boudha Stupa Thanka Center
with kindness
Andy
