Thank you, Mike. This is a good post.
Better way of seeing if anyone is paying attention might be to ask for a summary of the basic teaching. (Have to admit I'm not big into lists).
So I'll take a shot: No sense experience is ever satisfying, due to their changing nature. Understand that, and realize liberation through lack of clinging.
SN 22.57: Sattatthana Sutta — Seven Bases
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Isn't that the message repeated throughout SN 22?
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Well, yes, SN22 is supposed to emphasise the First Noble Truth, according to Bhikku Bodhi's overview that I quoted herealan wrote:Isn't that the message repeated throughout SN 22?
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What I was trying to get at in my questions was where you've seen the list of seven (or parts of the list of seven) before...
Mike
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List this, list that. I don't care about lists. I'm interested in understanding.
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Hi Mike
Great class you got going there! Good luck with it.
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Great class you got going there! Good luck with it.
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Hi Matheesha,
Or, perhaps the problem is that the assignment is not being graded...
Here's a hint: The seven points are an extremely common group of four, plus a somewhat common group of three...
Mike
Thanks, but no-one is answering my question about where else the seven points appear. Perhaps it's either too easy or too difficult....rowyourboat wrote: Great class you got going there! Good luck with it.
Or, perhaps the problem is that the assignment is not being graded...
Here's a hint: The seven points are an extremely common group of four, plus a somewhat common group of three...
Mike
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1) the stuff
2) origin of the stuff
3) the cessation of the stuff
4) how on earth you got there
5) why stuff is great
6) whats not so good about it
7) the escape from stuff
Do I get full marks? (apart from acuracy of terminology )
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Hmm, I'll have to consult the exam moderators on that...rowyourboat wrote: Do I get full marks? (apart from acuracy of terminology )
As you say, what we have in the seven-fold list:
is the four truths pattern, which of course appears in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html, but the application to the aggregates is in the previous Sutta, SN 22.57 Parivatta Sutta: The (Fourfold) Round http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html"And how is a monk skilled in seven bases? There is the case where a monk discerns form, the origination of form, the cessation of form, the path of practice leading to the cessation of form. He discerns the allure of form, the drawback of form, and the escape from form.
The three-fold pattern of allure, drawback, escape also appears in a number of suttas: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html"The fourfold round in what way? I had direct knowledge of form... of the origination of form... of the cessation of form... of the path of practice leading to the cessation of form.
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What is the allure of feeling, what is its drawback, what is the escape from it?"
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Excellent Mike,
Now how do we get to know Stuff?
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Now how do we get to know Stuff?
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Isn't that what the three modes of investigation are about?rowyourboat wrote: Now how do we get to know Stuff?
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mikenz66 wrote:Isn't that what the three modes of investigation are about?rowyourboat wrote: Now how do we get to know Stuff?
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You might be on to something there Mike- how can we see the allure, drawback and escape of something then?
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Re: SN 22.57: Sattatthana Sutta — Seven Bases
If anyone answered, it would be "speaking and listening," or "making and receiving thoughts," instead of seeing.rowyourboat wrote:You might be on to something there Mike- how can we see the allure, drawback and escape of something then?
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OK, here are some comments from Bhikkhu Bodhi (BB) and Commentary (Spk).
BB: The seven cases (sattatthana) are obtained by merging the tetrad of the preceding sutta with the triad of SN 22:26.
[As we have already discussed above.]
Spk: This sutta is a statement of both congratulations (ussada-nandiya) and enticement (palobhianiya). For just as a king who has won a battle rewards and honours his victorious warriors in order to inspire the other soldiers to become heroes, so the Blessed One extols and praises the arahants in order to inspire the others to attain the fruit of arahantship.
BB: A triple investigator (tividhupaparikkhi). This may be understood by way of the Dhatusamyutta(SN 14, Elements http://awake.kiev.ua/dhamma/tipitaka/2S ... index.html), the Salayatanasamyutta (SN 36, The six senses http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .html#sn35), and tha Nidanasamyutta (SN 12, Paticcasamuppada (dependent co-arising) http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .html#sn12). See too MN 115 http://www.mahindarama.com/e-tipitaka/M ... mn-115.htm, where skill in the elements, sense bases and dependent origination is explained in detail, augmented by the skill of knowing the possible and the impossible.
BB: The seven cases (sattatthana) are obtained by merging the tetrad of the preceding sutta with the triad of SN 22:26.
[As we have already discussed above.]
Spk: This sutta is a statement of both congratulations (ussada-nandiya) and enticement (palobhianiya). For just as a king who has won a battle rewards and honours his victorious warriors in order to inspire the other soldiers to become heroes, so the Blessed One extols and praises the arahants in order to inspire the others to attain the fruit of arahantship.
BB: A triple investigator (tividhupaparikkhi). This may be understood by way of the Dhatusamyutta(SN 14, Elements http://awake.kiev.ua/dhamma/tipitaka/2S ... index.html), the Salayatanasamyutta (SN 36, The six senses http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .html#sn35), and tha Nidanasamyutta (SN 12, Paticcasamuppada (dependent co-arising) http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .html#sn12). See too MN 115 http://www.mahindarama.com/e-tipitaka/M ... mn-115.htm, where skill in the elements, sense bases and dependent origination is explained in detail, augmented by the skill of knowing the possible and the impossible.
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Recall Bhikkhu Nanananda's comments about the investigation in three ways:
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He makes the point that investigation by way of Dependent Arising leads to an understanding of the aggregates:"As to that, monks, a monk investigates things by way of the elements,[54] by way of sense-spheres,[55] by way of Dependent Arising[56].
and hence:This 'investigation by way of Dependent Arising' is an illustration of the practical application of that law in order to understand the structure of experience. By tracing experience to its very source — ignorance — one understands the cumulative process (upacaya — M. III 287 [MN 148 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;]) whereby the Five Aggregates of Grasping come into existence. 'Attention-by-way-of-matrix' (yonisomanasikaara) is an integral element in the law of Dependent Arising, as the Mahaapadaana Sutta (D. II 31ff [DN 14]) clearly reveals. Ignorance, when discovered, is transmuted into Knowledge, and as such, the outcome of this yonisomanasikaara is the destruction of that foundation on which the structure of sense-experience rests precariously balanced.
The three ways of investigation would thus lead to a comprehension of the three basic categories, 'khandhaa' (aggregates), 'aayatanaani' (spheres) and 'dhaatuyo' (elements).