{"id":"sn12.59","title":"Consciousness","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn12.59","title":"Consciousness","units":[{"id":"sn12.59:0","sourceIds":["sn12.59:0.1","sn12.59:0.2","sn12.59:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.59\n6. Dukkhavagga\nViññāṇasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 12.59\n6. Suffering\nConsciousness"}},{"id":"sn12.59:1","sourceIds":["sn12.59:1.1","sn12.59:1.2","sn12.59:1.3","sn12.59:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu assādānupassino viharato viññāṇassa avakkanti hoti.\nViññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpaṁ …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“There are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the gratification provided by these things, consciousness is conceived.\nConsciousness is a requirement for name and form. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering originates."}},{"id":"sn12.59:2","sourceIds":["sn12.59:2.1","sn12.59:2.2","sn12.59:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, mahārukkho.\nTassa yāni ceva mūlāni …pe…\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu assādānupassino viharato viññāṇassa avakkanti hoti …pe….","en":"Suppose there was a great tree.\nAnd its roots going downwards and across all draw the sap upwards. …\nIn the same way, there are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the gratification provided by these things, consciousness is conceived. …"}},{"id":"sn12.59:3","sourceIds":["sn12.59:3.1","sn12.59:3.2","sn12.59:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyojaniyesu, bhikkhave, dhammesu ādīnavānupassino viharato viññāṇassa avakkanti na hoti.\nViññāṇanirodhā nāmarūpanirodho …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hoti.","en":"There are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the drawbacks of these things, consciousness is not conceived.\nWhen consciousness ceases, name and form cease. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering ceases."}},{"id":"sn12.59:4","sourceIds":["sn12.59:4.1","sn12.59:4.2","sn12.59:4.3","sn12.59:4.4","sn12.59:4.5","sn12.59:4.6","sn12.59:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, mahārukkho.\nAtha puriso āgaccheyya kuddālapiṭakaṁ ādāya …pe…\nāyatiṁ anuppādadhammo.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, saṁyojaniyesu dhammesu ādīnavānupassino viharato viññāṇassa avakkanti na hoti.\nViññāṇassa nirodhā nāmarūpanirodho …pe…\nevametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hotī”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"Suppose there was a great tree.\nThen a person comes along with a spade and basket. …\nIn this way the great tree is cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future.\nIn the same way, there are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the drawbacks of these things, consciousness is not conceived.\nWhen consciousness ceases, name and form cease. …\nThat is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.59/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}