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With bibliography, subject index. 1.Buddhism – Doctrine – paticca samuppada. © 2021, John Dinsmore Contents Contents..........................................................................v Preface...........................................................................ix Notes on the Text...........................................................xv A. The Buddha’s Method.................................................1 1. Practicality................................................................................................2 2. Subjectivity...............................................................................................5 3. Insubstantiality..........................................................................................9 4. Conditionality.........................................................................................14 5. Conclusions.............................................................................................17 Opening Verse...............................................................19 1. This Mass of Suffering..............................................21 1. The origin of suffering............................................................................23 2. Understanding suffering..........................................................................25 3. Dependent coarising................................................................................28 4. The cessation of this mass of suffering...................................................32 2. Birth..........................................................................37 1. Birth as the origin of this entire mass of suffering..................................38 2. Buddhist cosmology................................................................................39 3. Framing our practice...............................................................................42 4. Viewpoint and outlook............................................................................45 5. The middle way.......................................................................................49 6. The cessation of birth..............................................................................50 3. Becoming..................................................................53 vi Dependent Coarising 1. Becoming as the origin of birth..............................................................55 2. The elements of personality....................................................................57 3. Some words on cognition........................................................................59 4. Growing the world..................................................................................61 5. The cross-entangled snarl........................................................................65 6. The cessation of becoming......................................................................67 4. Appropriation............................................................69 1. Appropriation as the origin of becoming................................................70 2. Appropriating sensuality.........................................................................72 3. Appropriating views................................................................................73 4. Appropriating conduct and observances.................................................75 5. Appropriating self-doctrine.....................................................................76 6. The cessation of appropriation................................................................77 5. Craving......................................................................85 1. Craving as the origin of appropriation....................................................86 2. Craving as the origin of suffering...........................................................88 3. Craving sensuality...................................................................................89 4. The hunting expedition...........................................................................90 5. Craving for becoming.............................................................................93 6. Craving for unbecoming.........................................................................97 7. The cessation of craving.........................................................................98 6. Feeling....................................................................101 1. Feeling as the origin of craving............................................................102 2. The relativity of feeling.........................................................................106 3. The fishing expedition..........................................................................109 4. The cessation of feeling........................................................................113 7. Contact....................................................................117 1. Contact as the origin of feeling.............................................................119 2. The scourge of the natural attitude........................................................120 3. Outer unreliability.................................................................................123 4. Intrusion from within............................................................................125 5. The cessation of contact........................................................................127 8. The sixfold sphere...................................................133 1. The sixfold sphere as the origin of contact...........................................136 2. What is the eye?....................................................................................136 3. Subject and object.................................................................................140 4. Passion for the eye................................................................................143 5. The cessation of the sixfold sphere.......................................................145 9. Name and form.......................................................149 1. Name and form as origin of the sixfold sphere.....................................151 Contents vii 2. The dynamics of name and form...........................................................153 3. Members of the committee...................................................................157 4. The cessation of name and form...........................................................162 10. Cognizance............................................................165 1. Cognizance as the origin of name and form.........................................167 2. The dynamics of the whirlpool.............................................................170 3. Cognizance and contact........................................................................172 4. Cognizance as magic.............................................................................174 5. The cessation of cognizance.................................................................176 11. Formations............................................................181 1. Formations as the origin of cognizance................................................183 2. The sundry facets of formations............................................................184 3. Habituation............................................................................................186 4. Formations as kamma...........................................................................189 5. The cessation of formations..................................................................193 12. Ignorance..............................................................197 1. Ignorance as the origin of formations...................................................199 2. The scourge of the self..........................................................................202 3. The scourge of concepts and views.......................................................203