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How can Name-and-form be the cause and condition for the manifestation of the consciousness aggregate?

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In SN 22.82 Buddha says Name and Form is the cause and condition for the manifestation of Consciousness aggregate. > “The four great elements, bhikkhu, are the cause and condition for the > manifestation of the form aggregate. Contact is the cause and > condition for the manifestation of the feeling aggregate. Contact is > the cause and condition for the manifestation of the perception > aggregate. Contact is the cause and condition for the manifestation of > the volitional formations aggregate. **Name-and-form is the cause and** > **condition for the manifestation of the consciousness aggregate.**” However while elucidating dependent origination Buddha says Consciousness is the cause and condition for Name and form. > This being so that is, beginning with the arising of this that arises, > thus: because of ignorance there are volitional processes, because of > volitional processes: consciousness, **because of consciousness: mind** > **and body**, because of mind and body: the six sense-spheres, because of > the six sense-spheres: contact, because of contact: feeling, because > of feeling: craving, because of craving: attachment, because of > attachment: continuation, because of continuation: birth, because of > birth: old age, death, grief, lamentation, pain, sorrow, and despair > all arise, and so there is an origination of this whole great mass of > suffering. My question is : Is this a contradiction ? If not then please explain how?
Asked by Dheeraj Verma (4296 rep)
May 25, 2018, 01:01 AM
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