Because of Not Examining ... !!!

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Friends:

Not Examining the Five Clusters of Clinging causes Assumption to arise:

At Savatthi the wanderer Vacchagotta approached the Blessed One & greeted him.

Having concluded their compliments, he sat down aside & asked the Blessed

Buddha:

Master Gotama, what is the cause, condition & reason, why these various

speculative

views arise in the world: This Universe is eternal, or This Universe is not

eternal. & ;

This Universe is finite, or This Universe is infinite. Vitality & the body are

the same,

or biological life is one thing, the body is another. The Tathagata exists

after death,

or The Tathagata does not exist after death. The Tathagata both exists and

does not

exist after death. Or; The Tathagata neither exists, nor does not exist after

death ?

The Blessed Buddha then replied:

It is, Vaccha, because of neither Knowing form, nor feeling, perception, nor

mental

construction, nor consciousness, nor the Cause of Origin of form, feeling,

perception,

mental construction, & consciousness, nor the Cause of the Cessation of form,

feeling,

perception, mental construction, & consciousness, nor the Way to Cease form,

feeling,

perception, mental construction, & consciousness, that these various

speculative views,

such as: " This Universe is eternal, finite etc. etc. " arise in the world...!!!

This ignorance,

this not seeing, this not understanding, this not fully knowing, this not

breaking through,

this not comprehending, this not penetrating, this not discerning, this not

discriminating,

this not differentiating, this not closely investigating, this not directly

realizing, friend

Vaccha, is the cause, & reason, why those various speculative views arise in

this world!!!

Source:

The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book III 257-263

The Vacchagotta section 33. Threads on Not Knowing: Aqqana Sutta (1-55)

http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

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