Linked Discourses 12.37
- Kaḷāra the Aristocrat
Not Yours
At Sāvatthī.
“Mendicants, this body doesn’t belong to you or to anyone else.
It’s old deeds, and should be seen as produced by choices and intentions, as something to be felt.
A learned noble disciple carefully and rationally applies the mind to dependent origination itself:
‘When this exists, this comes to be; due to the arising of this, this arises.
When this doesn’t exist, this doesn’t come to be; due to the cessation of this, this ceases. That is:
Ignorance is a requirement for choices.
Choices are a requirement for consciousness. …
That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.
When ignorance fades away and ceases with no residue left behind, choices cease.
When choices cease, consciousness ceases. …
That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.’”