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Summary of discussion in this talk:
MN#38 24-Feb-06 The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving   - Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta
This Sutta goes into great detail on Dependent Origination. Each link is discussed.It starts out with the story of the infamous monk, Sati, “The son of a Fisherman” and his spreading the pernicious (wrong) view that there one consciousness that runs through the rounds of rebirth.
The Buddha corrects him “misguided man” and explains that consciousness is dependently arisen. To fully understand Dependent Origination the student might do well to study this talk.

 
  • The cessation experience is discussed and what happens.
  • How the experience of Nibbāna occurs is discussed with the first expe>rience and the fruition.
  • The Fetters or Taints that are eliminated at each stage of awakening is explained.
  • The warning about the Bodhisattva vow. Take Heed!
  • How long is a Mahākappa? What is an Asankeyya? What stage of the expansion of the universe are we currently in?
  • Story about the king and the Bodhisatta when he had his head cut off even while he radiated loving-kindness to the executioner.
  • How you know whether you really are a Bodhisattva. (Through a dream)
  • There is an outlining of the birth of a being (an interesting note here is that there may be an egg in the mother, yet there is no “being” present to be born and thus no birth takes place!).

     





 

  
 		                           
 
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