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SN 12.27PTS SN 2.422 min read

Dependency

Paccayasutta

Dependent origination is framed within the four noble truths.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.27Linked Discourses 12.27
  • 0.23. Dasabalavagga3. The Ten Powers

0.3PaccayasuttaDependency

1.1Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Avijjāpaccayā, bhikkhave, saṅkhārā;“Ignorance is a requirement for choices.

1.3saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṁ …pe…Choices are a requirement for consciousness. …1.4evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.

2.1Katamañca, bhikkhave, jarāmaraṇaṁ?And what is old age and death?2.2Yā tesaṁ tesaṁ sattānaṁ tamhi tamhi sattanikāye jarā jīraṇatā khaṇḍiccaṁ pāliccaṁ valittacatā āyuno saṁhāni indriyānaṁ paripāko—The old age, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkly skin, diminished vitality, and failing faculties of the various sentient beings in the various orders of sentient beings.2.3ayaṁ vuccati jarā.This is called old age.2.4Yā tesaṁ tesaṁ sattānaṁ tamhā tamhā sattanikāyā cuti cavanatā bhedo antaradhānaṁ maccu maraṇaṁ kālakiriyā khandhānaṁ bhedo kaḷevarassa nikkhepo;The passing away, passing on, disintegration, demise, mortality, death, decease, breaking up of the aggregates, and laying to rest of the corpse of the various sentient beings in the various orders of sentient beings.2.5idaṁ vuccati maraṇaṁ.This is called death.2.6Iti ayañca jarā idañca maraṇaṁ.Such is old age, and such is death.2.7Idaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, jarāmaraṇaṁ.This is called old age and death.2.8Jātisamudayā jarāmaraṇasamudayo;Rebirth is the origin of old age and death.2.9jātinirodhā jarāmaraṇanirodho.When rebirth ceases, old age and death cease.2.10Ayameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo jarāmaraṇanirodhagāminī paṭipadā.The practice that leads to the cessation of old age and death is simply this noble eightfold path,12.11Seyyathidaṁ—sammādiṭṭhi, sammāsaṅkappo, sammāvācā, sammākammanto, sammāājīvo, sammāvāyāmo, sammāsati, sammāsamādhi.that is: right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.

3.1PTS 2.43Katamā ca, bhikkhave, jāti …pe…And what is rebirth? …23.2katamo ca, bhikkhave, bhavo …And what is continued existence? …3.3katamañca, bhikkhave, upādānaṁ …And what is grasping? …3.4katamā ca, bhikkhave, taṇhā …And what is craving? …3.5katamā ca, bhikkhave, vedanā …And what is feeling? …3.6katamo ca, bhikkhave, phasso …And what is contact? …3.7katamañca, bhikkhave, saḷāyatanaṁ …And what are the six sense fields? …3.8katamañca, bhikkhave, nāmarūpaṁ …And what are name and form? …3.9katamañca, bhikkhave, viññāṇaṁ …?And what is consciousness? …

4.1Katame ca, bhikkhave, saṅkhārā?And what are choices?4.2Tayome, bhikkhave, saṅkhārā—There are three kinds of choices.4.3kāyasaṅkhāro, vacīsaṅkhāro, cittasaṅkhāro.Choices by way of body, speech, and mind.4.4Ime vuccanti, bhikkhave, saṅkhārā.These are called choices.4.5Avijjāsamudayā saṅkhārasamudayo;Ignorance is the origin of choices.4.6avijjānirodhā saṅkhāranirodho.When ignorance ceases, choices cease.4.7Ayameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo saṅkhāranirodhagāminī paṭipadā.The practice that leads to the cessation of choices is simply this noble eightfold path,4.8Seyyathidaṁ—sammādiṭṭhi …pe… sammāsamādhi.that is: right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.

5.1Yato kho, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako evaṁ paccayaṁ pajānāti, evaṁ paccayasamudayaṁ pajānāti, evaṁ paccayanirodhaṁ pajānāti, evaṁ paccayanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadaṁ pajānāti.When a noble disciple thus understands dependency, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation,35.2Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako diṭṭhisampanno itipi, dassanasampanno itipi, āgato imaṁ saddhammaṁ itipi, passati imaṁ saddhammaṁ itipi, sekkhena ñāṇena samannāgato itipi, sekkhāya vijjāya samannāgato itipi, dhammasotaṁ samāpanno itipi, ariyo nibbedhikapañño itipi, amatadvāraṁ āhacca tiṭṭhati itipī”ti.that noble disciple is called: ‘one accomplished in view’, ‘one accomplished in vision’, ‘one who has come to the true teaching’, ‘one who sees this true teaching’, ‘one endowed with a trainee’s insight’, ‘one endowed with a trainee’s knowledge’, ‘one who has entered the stream of the teaching’, ‘a noble one with penetrative wisdom’, and also ‘one who stands pressing against the door to freedom from death’.”4

5.3Sattamaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. Normally the path leads to the cessation of “suffering”. This shows another way of integrating dependent origination with the path.

    ↩ sn12.27:2.10
  2. The remaining items are presumably to be expanded per SN 12.2.

    ↩ sn12.27:3.1
  3. One who knows the path and dependent origination is a stream-enterer, for which the next phrase supplies a series of synonyms.

    ↩ sn12.27:5.1
  4. The idiom āhacca tiṭṭhati is used for the river “pressing into” the ocean (MN 73:14.1), or the tongue “pressed against” the roof of the mouth (MN 100:17.2).

    ↩ sn12.27:5.2