Dvayatanupassana Sutta

[cobwith]

An old sutta where speculations on Pratytyasamutpada (dependant origination) were not yet rigourously classified.
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[retrofuturist]

Greetings,

'Whatever stress comes into play is all from acquisition as a requisite condition': this is one contemplation. 'From the remainderless fading & cessation of that very acquisition, there is no coming into play of stress': this is a second contemplation.

For a monk rightly contemplating this duality in this way heedful, ardent, & resolute one of two fruits can be expected: either gnosis right here & now, or if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance non-return."
That is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-gone, the Teacher, said further:

The manifold stresses
that come into play in the world,
come from acquisition as their cause.

Anyone not knowing [this]
creates acquisition.
The fool, he comes to stress
again & again.

Therefore, discerning [this],
you shouldn't create acquisition
as you contemplate birth
as what brings stress
into play.

Wonderful.



Metta,
Retro.