Dependent Arising 7: Mental Block 1
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 12/05/2019

This series is classified Vivartha-vāda | Rāja-yoga | Suśupti | Ājñā-cakra
So the experiment of the last few days has brought out something very interesting: out of all the comments on this series (or any series on this channel) there are ZERO comments about Dependent Arising! ALL the comments are off-topic. I think you have a mental block that prevents you from seeing Dependent Arising here-and-now as it really is. 

Natumha Sutta — Samyutta Nikaya 12.37
connected discourses on causation: “Not Yours”

At Savatthī. “Bhikkhus, this body is not yours, nor does it belong to others. It is old kamma, to be seen as generated and fashioned by volition, as something to be felt. Therein, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple attends carefully and closely to Dependent Arising itself thus: 

When this exists, this comes to be; with the arising of this, this arises. When this does not exist, this does not arise; with the cessation of this, this ceases. 

That is: with ignorance as condition, saṅkhārā arise; with saṅkhārā as condition, consciousness arises; with consciousness as condition, name and form arise; with name and form as condition, the six sense spheres arise; with the six sense spheres as condition, contact arises; with contact as condition, feeling arises; with feeling as condition, craving arises; with craving as condition, grasping arises; with grasping as condition, becoming arises; with becoming as condition, birth arises; with birth as condition arise decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair. Such is the arising of this entire mass of suffering.

“But with the remainderless fading away and cessation of ignorance comes cessation of saṅkhārā; with cessation of saṅkhārā comes cessation of consciousness; with cessation of consciousness comes cessation of name and form; with cessation of name and form comes cessation of six sense spheres; with cessation of six sense spheres comes cessation of contact;with cessation of contact comes cessation of feeling; with cessation of feeling comes cessation of craving; with cessation of craving comes cessation of grasping; with cessation of grasping comes cessation of becoming; with cessation of becoming comes cessation of birth; with cessation of birth, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation pain, grief and despair cease. Such is the cessation of this whole mass of suffering.”

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