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MN 38: How do aging-&-death cease when the eye sees a form?

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MN 38 has the following two different or opposite verses on the arising of suffering & the ceasing of suffering: > *On seeing a form with the eye, he lusts after it if it is pleasing; he dislikes it if it is unpleasing. He abides with mindfulness of the > body unestablished, with a limited mind, and he does not understand as > it actually is the deliverance of mind and deliverance by wisdom > wherein those evil unwholesome states cease without remainder. Engaged > as he is in favouring and opposing, whatever feeling he feels—whether > pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—he delights in > that feeling, welcomes it, and remains holding to it. As he does so, > delight arises in him. Now delight in feelings is clinging. With his > clinging as condition, being comes to be; with being as condition, > birth; with birth as condition, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, > pain, grief, and despair come to be. Such is **the origin** of this whole > mass of suffering.* > > *On seeing a form with the eye, he does not lust after it if it is pleasing; he does not dislike it if it is unpleasing. He abides with > mindfulness of the body established, with an immeasurable mind, and he > understands as it actually is the deliverance of mind and deliverance > by wisdom wherein those evil unwholesome states cease without > remainder. Having thus abandoned favouring and opposing, whatever > feeling he feels, whether pleasant or painful or > neither-painful-nor-pleasant, he does not delight in that feeling, > welcome it, or remain holding to it. As he does not do so, delight in > feelings ceases in him. With the cessation of his delight comes > cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, cessation of > being; with the cessation of being, cessation of birth; with the > cessation of birth, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, > grief, and despair cease. Such is **the cessation** of this whole mass of > suffering.* Although these two verses are different, what is common to both verses is the event of: "*on seeing a form with the eye*". How do aging-&-death cease when the eye sees a form?
Asked by Paraloka Dhamma Dhatu (48141 rep)
Dec 8, 2018, 03:23 AM
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