Vol.14 No.3 March 6, 2004
Words of Dhamma
Samāhito sampajāno, sato Buddhassa sāvako; vedanā ca pajānāti, vedanānañca sambhavaṃ. Yattha cetā nirujjhanti, maggañca khayagāminaṃ; vedanānaṃ khayā bhikkhu.
A follower of the Buddha, with concentration, awareness and constant thorough understanding of impermanence, knows with wisdom the sensations, their arising, their cessation and the path leading to their end. A meditator who has reached the end (has experienced the entire range) of sensations (and has gone beyond) is freed from craving, is fully liberated.
Saṃyutta Nikāya 2.4.249
Vedanā in Paṭiccasamuppāda - by Vipassana Research Institute
(The following is an extract from The Importance of Vedanā and Sampajañña published by the Vipassana Research Institute.)
Paṭiccasamuppāda, or the Law of Dependent Origination, is fundamental to the teaching of the Buddha. Emphasizing its importance, the Buddha said:
Yo paṭiccasamuppādaṃ passati,
so dhammaṃ passati;
Yo dhammaṃ passati,
so paṭiccasamuppādaṃ passati.1
One who sees the paṭiccasamuppāda sees the Dhamma.
One who sees the Dhamma sees the paṭiccasamuppāda.
Paṭiccasamuppāda explains that saṃsāra, the process of repeated existences, is perpetuated by a chain of interconnected links of cause and effect; it also reveals the method of breaking this chain and putting an end to the process. The Buddha said:
Taṇhādutiyo puriso,
dīghamaddhāna saṃsaraṃ;
itthabhāvaññathābhāvaṃ,
saṃsāraṃ nātivattati.2
The man with craving as his companion has been flowing in the stream of repeated existences from time immemorial. He comes into being, experiences various types of miseries, dies again and again, and does not put an end to this unbroken process of becoming.
This is saṃsāra, the world of suffering, as explained by the Buddha. He further said:
Etaṃ ādīnavaṃ ñatvā,
taṇhaṃ dukkhassa sambhavaṃ;
Vītataṇho anādāno,
sato bhikkhu paribbaje.3
Rightly understanding the perils of this process,
Fully realizing craving as its cause,
Becoming free from craving and attachment,
One should mindfully lead the life of detachment.
Such an approach, he said, will have great benefit-
Nandī-saṃyojano loko,
vitakkassa vicāraṇaṃ
Taṇhāya vippahānena,
nibbānaṃ iti vuccati.4
Pleasure is the binding force in the world.
Rolling thought processes are its ever-changing base.
With the complete eradication of craving,
The state called nibbāna is attained.
These statements made by the Buddha describe the nature of saṃsāra, the state of suffering, and the nature of nibbāna, the state of final emancipation. But how can detachment be developed, and craving eradicated?
This is the practical aspect of Dhamma discovered by Siddhattha Gotama, the realisation that made him a Buddha, and that he in turn revealed to the world by the doctrine of paṭiccasamuppāda.
According to this doctrine, twelve links form the wheel of becoming (bhava-cakka). They are:
- avijjā (ignorance)
- saṇkhāra (volitional activities)
- viññāṇa (consciousness)
- nāma-rūpa (mind and matter)
- saḷāyatana (six sense doors)
- phassa (contact)
- vedanā (sensation)
- taṇhā (craving)
- upādāna (clinging)
- bhava (becoming)
- jāti (birth)
- jarā-maraṇa (decay and death)
Dependent on avijjā arise saṇkhāra;
dependent on saṇkhāra arises viññāṇa;
dependent on viññāṇa arise nāma-rūpa;
dependent on nāma-rūpa arise saḷāyatana;
dependent on saḷāyatana arises phassa;
dependent on phassa arises vedanā;
dependent on vedanā arises taṇhā;
dependent on taṇhā arises upādāna.
Thus, this vicious circle of misery rolls on. In other words, the origin of each link depends upon the preceding one. As long as this chain of twelve causal relations operates, the wheel of becoming (bhava-cakka) keeps turning, bringing nothing but suffering. This process of cause and effect is called anuloma-paṭiccasamuppāda (direct Law of Dependent Origination).
Every link of anuloma results in dukkha, suffering, as a result of avijjā, which is at the base of every link. Thus, the process of anuloma clarifies the first two Noble Truths: dukkha-sacca, suffering, and samudaya-sacca, its origination and multiplication.
Our task is to emerge from the bhava-cakka of dukkha. Explaining how to do so, the Buddha said that when any one of the links of the chain is broken, the wheel of becoming comes to an end, resulting in the cessation of suffering. This is called paṭiloma-paṭiccasamuppāda (the Law of Dependent Origination in reverse order) which clarifies the third and fourth Noble Truths, nirodha-sacca the cessation of suffering and nirodha-gāminī-paṭipadā-sacca, the path that leads to the cessation of suffering.
How can that be achieved? At which link can the chain be broken? Through deep insight, the Buddha discovered that the crucial link is vedanā. In the anuloma-paṭiccasamuppāda, he says 'Vedanā-paccayā-taṇhā'.
Vedanā is the cause of taṇhā, which gives rise to dukkha. In order to remove the cause of dukkha or taṇhā, one must not allow vedanā to give rise to taṇhā; in other words, one must practise Vipassana meditation at this juncture so that avijjā becomes vijjā or paññā (wisdom). One has to observe vedanā, to experience and to comprehend the truth of its arising and passing away, anicca.
By Vipassana meditation, as one experiences vedanā in the proper way, one comes out of the delusion of nicca-saññā (perception of permanence) by the development of anicca-bodha or anicca-vijjā (the wisdom of impermanence) towards vedanā.
This is practised by observing with equanimity the arising and passing away of vedanā. With anicca-bodha, the habit pattern of the mind changes. Instead of the earlier pattern of vedanā-paccayā taṇhā, through anicca-vijjā it becomes vedanā-paccayā paññā. As paññā becomes stronger and stronger, naturally saññā, and with it, taṇhā, becomes weaker and weaker.
The process of multiplication of suffering with the base of avijjā then becomes the process of the cessation of suffering, with vijjā as the base. As this process continues, a time comes when there is the complete cessation of vedanā as well as taṇhā-'Vedanā-nirodhā, taṇhā-nirodho.
This state of emancipation is a state beyond mind and matter, where both vedanā and saññā cease. One can experience this for a few seconds, minutes, hours, or days when, according to one's own capacity, one becomes established in nirodha-samāpatti by practising Vipassana.
After the period of nirodha-samāpatti, when one comes back to the sensuous field of mind and matter, one again experiences vedanā. But now the whole habit pattern of the mind has changed, and continued practice leads to the stage where one does not generate aversion or craving at all because anusaya and āsava (the deep-rooted mental impurities) are eradicated. In this way, by the breaking of one link-vedanā, the whole process is shattered and the wheel of repeated existence is completely broken.
If we want to advance on the path of liberation, we have to work at the level of vedanā because it is here that the momentum of the wheel of misery can be arrested.
With vedanā starts the turning of the bhava-cakka, leading (because of avijjā) to vedanā-paccayā taṇhā, which causes suffering. This is the path, which ignorant persons (puthujjana) follow, since they react to vedanā and generate taṇhā.
However, from vedanā, the dhamma-cakka, or the wheel of cessation of suffering (dukkha-nirodha-gāminī-paṭipadā) can start to rotate, leading to vedanā-nirodhā, taṇhā-nirodho-the end of craving, as a result of anicca-vijjā or paññā, leading to the cessation of suffering. This is the path which wise persons (sapañña) follow by not reacting to vedanā, because they have developed anicca-bodha by the practice of Vipassana.
Many of the contemporaries of the Buddha held the view that craving causes suffering and that to remove suffering one has to abstain from the objects of craving. Having learnt to examine the depths of his mind, the Buddha realized that between the external object and mental reflex of craving is a missing link-vedanā (sensation).
Whenever we encounter an object through the five physical senses or the mind, a sensation arises; and based on the sensation, taṇhā arises. If the sensation is pleasant we crave to prolong it, and if it is unpleasant we crave to be rid of it. It is in the chain of Dependent Origination that the Buddha expressed his great discovery.
Phassa-paccayā vedanā
Vedanā-paccayā taṇhā.5
Dependent on contact, sensation arises.
Dependent on sensation, craving arises.
The immediate cause for the arising of craving and of suffering is, therefore, not something outside of us but rather the sensations that occur within us. To free ourselves of craving and of suffering we must deal with this inner reality of sensations. Doing so is the practical way to emerge from suffering.
By developing anicca-vijjā (the wisdom of impermanence), we learn to cut the knots of our misery and witness the true nature of Dhamma. Therefore, vedanā is the cause of our bondage when not properly observed, and it is also the means of liberation when properly observed by understanding the Dhamma, the law of paṭiccasamuppāda.
Notes: (All references are from VRI edition)
1. Majjhima Nikāya 1.306
2. Suttanipāta 745
3. Ibid. 746
4. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.1.64
5. Mahāvagga (Vinaya Piṭaka) 1
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AT Workshop: 15 April (8 p.m.) to 25 April (11 a.m.).
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Anapana Course For Visually Challenged Children
A one-day Anapana course was organised for students of the Government Blind School at Nashik Road on 8th February 2004. The twenty-seven students who took part in the course said that they had benefited from the course. Later, they sent their feedback in Braille. There will be regular group meditation for these students in their school.
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Sayagyi U Ba Khin Journal
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Essence of Tipitaka by U Ko Lay
1998, 225 pages. Rs 100/-
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2001, 168 pages. Rs 80/-
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2001, 123 pages. Rs 40/-
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Healing the Healer & The Experience of Impermanence
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2001, 30 pages. Rs 25/-
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Come People of the World
1999, 32 pages. Rs 25/-
Translations of selected Hindi couplets from Goenkaji's chantings.
Gotama the Buddha: His Life and His Teaching
2000, 31 pages. Rs 25/-
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1997, 70 pages. Rs 35/-
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1999, 38 pages. Rs 65/-
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The Clock of Vipassana has Struck
2003, 244 pages. Rs 100/-
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Dhamma Books, Mr Bharat Shah, Shinde-Bhosale Arcade, Deccan Gymkhana, 5th Floor, Pune 411004. Tel: 020-4012826, 4012827. Email: dhammabooks@t-edge.com
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Vipassana Sadhana Samiti, Mohta Bhavan, 533-A, 8 B Road, Sardarpura, Jodhpur-342003. Tel: 32048, 33260
Vipassana Websites
Dhamma Giri: www.vri.dhamma.org
Contains information about Indian Vipassana centres and Schedule of Courses, VRI Newsletters, VRI publications, research papers about Vipassana, etc.
Vipassana introduction: www.dhamma.org
Contains information about Goenkaji, Course Schedules of Vipassana centres worldwide, Code of Discipline, Application Form for ten-day courses, etc.
Vipassana (old students only): <www.dhamma.org/os>
Contains information for old students of Vipassana including International Vipassana Newsletters and reference material.
Pali Tipiṭaka Website: www.tipitaka.org
Contains the Chaṭṭha Saṇgāyana Tipiṭaka in Roman script with commentaries, sub-commentaries and related Pali texts.