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
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May 25, 2018, 01:01 AM
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