DUKKHAVAGGA

Collections of Linked Discourses

Collections of 'linked' or 'connected' discourses and other related texts.

Parivīmaṁsanasutta

SN 12.51
An Inquiry

A mendicant should thoroughly investigate the causes of suffering in accordance with dependent origination. If someone who still has ignorance makes a choice, their consciousness fares on to a suitable state of existence. But one who has eradicated ignorance is detached and is not reborn anywhere.

Upādānasutta

SN 12.52
Grasping

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate grasping, illustrated with the simile of a bonfire.

Saṁyojanasutta

SN 12.53
Fetters

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate fetters, illustrated with the simile of a lamp.

Dutiyasaṁyojanasutta

SN 12.54
Fetters (2nd)

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate fetters, illustrated with the simile of a lamp.

Mahārukkhasutta

SN 12.55
A Great Tree

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate grasping, illustrated with the simile of a tree.

Dutiyamahārukkhasutta

SN 12.56
A Great Tree (2nd)

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate grasping, illustrated with the simile of a tree.

Taruṇarukkhasutta

SN 12.57
A Sapling

Craving increases when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate fetters, illustrated with the simile of a sapling.

Nāmarūpasutta

SN 12.58
Name and Form

The mental and physical organism is reborn when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate fetters, illustrated with the simile of a tree.

Viññāṇasutta

SN 12.59
Consciousness

Consciousness is reborn when you linger on pleasing things that stimulate fetters, illustrated with the simile of a tree.

Nidānasutta

SN 12.60
Causation

When Ānanda suggests that dependent origination is simple, the Buddha rebukes him. The opening of this is similar to DN 15 Mahānidāna.