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Bodhi Sutta: The Bodhi Tree (3)

Summary: url=index.html#ud.1.03.irel Shortly after his Awakening, the Buddha contemplates dependent origination.

Ud 1.3

PTS: Ud 2

Bodhi Sutta: The Bodhi Tree (3)

translated from the Pali by

John D. Ireland

Alternate translation: Thanissaro

Thus have I heard. At one time the Lord was staying at Uruvela… for seven days experiencing the bliss of liberation. Then, at the end of those seven days, the Lord… gave well-reasoned attention during the last watch of the night to dependent arising in both forward and reverse order, thus:

This being, that is;
from the arising of this, that arises;
this not being, that is not;
from the cessation of this, that ceases.

That is: with ignorance as condition, volitional activities come to be; … with birth as condition, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair come to be. This is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.

But from the complete disappearance and cessation of ignorance, volitional activities cease; … from the cessation of birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair cease. This is the ceasing of this whole mass of suffering.

Then, on realizing its significance, the Lord uttered on that occasion this inspired utterance:

When things become manifest To the ardent meditating brahman, He abides scattering Mara's host Like the sun illumining the sky.

See also: Ud 1.1; Ud 1.2.

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