Dependent Co-Arising American Bodhi Center February 10-12, 2017

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1 American Bodhi Center February 10-12, 2017 A workshop with Bhikkhu Cintita of Sitagu Buddha Vihara, Austin

2 1. Overview American Bodhi Center February 10-12, 2017 A workshop with Bhikkhu Cintita of Sitagu Buddha Vihara, Austin

3 General Meaning. Things arise based on causes and conditions. Specific Meaning. Twelve link causal chain of psychological factors that accounts for the human pathology. ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact feeling craving attachment becoming birth grief-despair

4 Buddha, after contemplating for seven days: When indeed truths become manifest, To the ardent, the meditator, the brahmin, Then all his doubts disappear, Since he knows each causal factor. When indeed truths become manifest, To the ardent, the meditator, the brahmin, Then all his doubts disappear, Since he has seen the eradication of conditions. When indeed truths become manifest, To the ardent, the meditator, the brahmin, Having smoked out Mara s army he stands, Like the sun shining in the sky.

5 Whoever sees dependent co-arising sees the Dhamma; Whoever sees the Dhamma sees dependent co-arising.

6 We require of our account: Arising of greed hate and delusion, human pathology, suffering Eradication of these, awakening Experiental, support for practice Cognitively coherent Support of the Buddha's early discourses

7 Twelve links ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact feeling craving attachment becoming birth grief-despair

8 ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact feeling craving attachment becoming birth old age, grief-despair Cognitive

9 Cognitive factors ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact Unfolding of delusion Fabricate the complex world of conceptual experience. Bifurcate the world into inner and outer Make it seem real. Separate self from other

10 ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact feeling craving attachment becoming birth old age, grief-despair Attitudinal

11 Attitudinal factors feeling craving attachment Unfolding of greed and hate Affective response to contact with things that appear out there Attract consciousness so that conceptual world grows in line with self interest.

12 ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact feeling craving attachment becoming birth old age, grief-despair Existential

13 Existential factors becoming birth grief-despair Unfolding of samsara. Consolidate full sense of self Perpetuate that into future life.

14 Goal: eradication of all twelve links right view right intention right action right speech right livelihood right effort right mindfulness right concentration Noble eightfold Path ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form six spheres contact feeling craving attachment becoming birth grief-despair Twelve links of dependent co-arising Awakening

15 ignorance fabrications Darkness Not seeing the four noble truths Not seeing how we: Fabricate reality Take it seriously Attach to it Causing us a lot of problems

16 ignorance fabrications consciousness Conceptualizations Building blocks of our delusions Consciousness is the paint brush, fabrications are the paint

17 fabrications consciousness name-and-form Discernment, deepens the experiential situation Focus, analysis

18 consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere The experiential situation Begins with sense data, adds layers of interpretation Incrementally built up by consciousness

19 name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact Bifurcation of name-and-form into internal and external Provides possibility of self and other

20 sixfold-sphere contact feeling Establishment of a perceptual relationship between internal and external Seer seeing the seen, hearer hearing the heard

21 contact feeling craving Finding an external object pleasant, painful or neutral

22 feeling craving attachment Greed or hate (neediness or aversion) with regard to the external object Where feeling is immediate, craving is forwardlooking, leads to planning and action

23 craving attachment becoming Habituation of cravings Identification with objects of craving as me or mine Viewpoints that relate self to cravings

24 attachment becoming birth Consolidation of sense of self Cumulative product of greed, hate and delusion

25 becoming birth grief-despair Perpetuation of what we have become into subsequent lives

26 birth grief-despair The suffering of future lives

27 Twelve links ignorance fabrications consciousness name-and-form sixfold-sphere contact feeling craving attachment becoming birth grief-despair