The "Linked Discourses on Causation" contains discourses on dependent co-arising (paṭiccasamuppāda). Dependent co-arising presents a series of conditional links laying out the process of becoming and the arising of suffering. These teachings explore the interdependent nature of existence, illustrating how one condition leads to another in a chain of causation. By examining the causes and conditions that give rise to suffering, these discourses offer insights into the nature of reality and the conditions for liberation.
Nidānasaṁyutta - Linked Discourses on Causation
The Buddha explains the twelve links of dependent co-arising, and how there is an arising and ending of the whole mass of suffering.
The Buddha analyzes each of the twelve links of dependent co-arising, and explains how there is an arising and ending of the whole mass of suffering.
The Buddha explains the wrong way of practice as that which leads to the arising of suffering, and the right way of practice as that which leads to the ending of suffering.
In the far past, the Buddha Vipassī prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.
In the far past, the Buddha Sikhī prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.
In the far past, the Buddha Vessabhū prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.
In the far past, the Buddha Kakusandha prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.
In the far past, the Buddha Koṇāgamana prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.
In the far past, the Buddha Kassapa prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.
The Buddha prior to his full awakening reflects on how the world has fallen into trouble and discovers the escape from suffering through wise attention and insight into dependent co-arising.
The Buddha explains the four kinds of nourishment that sustain beings that are existing and support those seeking birth, and how they arise from craving.
The Buddha explains dependent co-arising as a process rather than an agentive sequence.
Venerable Kaccānagotta asks the Buddha about right view, and the Buddha explains how the world depends on a duality of existence and non-existence, and how the Tathāgata teaches the Dhamma by the middle way.
The Buddha explains the similarities and the differences between the wise and the immature persons through dependent co-arising.
The Buddha teaches about dependent co-arising and the phenomena arisen from dependent co-arising. A noble disciple who has thoroughly seen this with right wisdom will no longer be doubtful about who they were in the past, who they will be in the future, or who they are in the present.
The Buddha explains the proximate causes for the ending of the mental defilements. The twelve factors leading to the ending of defilements are explained along with twelve factors that lead to suffering.
The Buddha describes the forty-four bases of knowledge by understanding.
Intending, planning, and underlying tendencies are the basis for the continuation of consciousness.
The Buddha explains how one can verify that they are a stream-enterer by reflecting on the five perilous animosities, the four factors of stream-entry, and clearly seeing with wisdom the noble principle of dependent co-arising.
The Buddha explains the arising and dissolution of the world through the six sense bases.
The Buddha explains the process of thoroughly investigating the arising and cessation of suffering through dependent co-arising.
The Buddha uses the simile of a bonfire to explain how perceiving gratification in objects that can be grasped at leads to clinging, to suffering, and how perceiving drawbacks in objects that can be grasped at leads to the cessation of clinging, to the ending of suffering.
When one dwells perceiving enjoyment in things that are the basis for fetters, there is a descent of consciousness. When one dwells perceiving the drawback in things that are the basis for fetters, there is no descent of consciousness.
The Buddha recounts how he attained full awakening by examining the principle of dependent co-arising. He likens this realization to a man discovering an ancient, forgotten city.