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Exalted Utterances - Udāna (KN 3)

An English translation of this important collection of eighty discourses covering many themes and biographical details in the Buddha’s teaching.

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1: Bodhivaggo - 5<br />

1.3 The Third Discourse about the Awakening (Tree)<br />

Thus I heard: at one time the Gracious One was dwelling near Uruvelā,<br />

on the bank of the river Nerañjarā, at the root of the Awakening tree,<br />

in the first (period) after attaining Awakening. Then at that time the<br />

Gracious One was sitting in one cross-legged posture for seven days<br />

experiencing the happiness of freedom.<br />

Then with the passing of those seven days, the Gracious One, after<br />

arising from that concentration, for the last watch of the night, applied<br />

his mind thoroughly to conditional origination in forward and reverse<br />

order:<br />

“This being so, that is; from the arising of this, that arises,<br />

this not being so, that is not; from the ceasing of this, that ceases,<br />

that is to say: with ignorance as condition there are (volitional)<br />

processes,<br />

with (volitional) processes as condition: consciousness,<br />

with consciousness as condition: mind and bodily form,<br />

with mind and bodily form as condition: the six sense spheres,<br />

with the six sense spheres as condition: contact,<br />

with contact as condition: feeling,<br />

with feeling as condition: craving,<br />

with craving as condition: attachment,<br />

with attachment as condition: continuation,<br />

with continuation as condition: birth,<br />

with birth as condition: old age, death,

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