Dependent Arising 8: Mental Block 2
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2019-05-13

This series is classified Vivartha-vāda | Rāja-yoga | Suśupti | Ājñā-cakra
So the inability of any viewers to post a comment on Dependent Arising proves there is a psychological disorder, a learning disability, a practical mental block. It’s due to state schooling and misunderstood terms. You have to work to overcome it before you can get Right View.

Kacchanagotta Sutta — Samyutta Nikaya 12.15
connected discourses on causation: “With Kacchanagotta”

At Savatthī. Then the Venerable Kaccanagotta approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Venerable sir, it is said, ‘right view, right view.’ In what way, venerable sir, is there right view?”

“This world, Kaccana, for the most part depends upon a duality—upon the notion of existence and the notion of nonexistence. But for one who sees the origin of the world as it really is with correct wisdom, there is no notion of nonexistence in regard to the world. And for one who sees the cessation of the world as it really is with correct wisdom, there is no notion of existence in regard to the world.

“This world, Kaccana, is for the most part shackled by engagement, clinging, and adherence.

“But this one with right view does not become engaged and cling through that engagement and clinging, mental standpoint, adherence, underlying tendency; he does not take a stand about ‘my self.’ He has no perplexity or doubt that what arises is only suffering arising, what ceases is only suffering ceasing. His knowledge about this is independent of others. It is in this way, Kaccana, that there is right view. “‘All exists’: Kaccana, this is one extreme. ‘All does not exist’: this is the second extreme. Without veering towards either of these extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma by the middle: 

“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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