The cycle of samsara and the spiral of emancipation
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Subhuti taught us at his visit to Sajókaza on Diwali time the cycle of samsara and the spiral of emancipation as it is written in the Pali Canon: Samyutta Nikaya XII. 23. Upanisa sutta last three paragraphes:
Just as when, brethren, on some hilltop when rain is falling in thick drops, that water, coursing according to the slope, fills the hillside clefts and chasms and gullies, these being filled up fill the tarns, these being filled up fill the lakes, these being filled up fill the little rivers, these being filled up fill the great rivers, and the great rivers being filled up fill the sea, the ocean.
Even so, brethren, there is causal association of activities with ignorance, of consciousness with activities, of name-and-shape with consciousness, of the sixfold sense-sphere with name-and-shape, of contact with the sixfold sense-sphere, of feeling with contact, of craving with feeling, of grasping with craving, of becoming with grasping, of birth with becoming.
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