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Assutavāsutta

SN 12.61
Unlearned

An ignorant person might become free of attachment to their body, but not their mind. Still, it would be better to attach to the body, as it is less changeable than the mind, which jumps about like a monkey.

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Dutiyaassutavāsutta

SN 12.62
Unlearned (2nd)

An ignorant person might become free of attachment to their body, but not their mind. Still, it would be better to attach to the body, as it is less changeable than the mind. But a noble disciple reflects on dependent origination.

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Puttamaṁsasutta

SN 12.63
A Child’s Flesh

The Buddha defines the four kinds of “food” or “nutriment”, which include edible food, contact, intention, and consciousness. He illustrates them with a series of powerful and horrifying similes.

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Atthirāgasutta

SN 12.64
If There Is Desire

The Buddha defines the four kinds of “food” or “nutriment”, which include edible food, contact, intention, and consciousness, showing how they lead to suffering according to dependent origination.

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Nagarasutta

SN 12.65
The City

The Buddha tells the story of how his awakening came about through investigation into dependent origination. He compares it to a man discovering and ancient city, lost and overgrown with weeds.

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Sammasasutta

SN 12.66
Probing Within

The right way to investigate inside oneself is to see how suffering is created by craving and attachment, stimulated by pleasant experiences.

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Naḷakalāpīsutta

SN 12.67
Sheaves of Reeds

Venerables Mahākoṭṭhita and Sāriputta discuss whether the factors of dependent origination are created by oneself, another, both, or by chance.

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Kosambisutta

SN 12.68
At Kosambī

Venerable Saviṭṭha questions Venerable Musīla about his attainments, and concludes he is an arahant. But Venerable Nārada offers an explanation showing that it is possible to see the Dhamma without having fully realized arahantship.

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Upayantisutta

SN 12.69
Surge

Like rivers flowing to the ocean, the factors of dependent origination lead to suffering.

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Susimaparibbājakasutta

SN 12.70
The Wanderer Susīma

The wanderer Susı̄ma fraudulently enters the Sangha so that the wanderers can learn the secret to the Buddha’s fame and success. Hearing that some mendicants claimed to be perfected, Susīma approaches and asks them if they have developed psychic powers or the formless states, to which they say no. Perplexed, he asks the Buddha, who explains that awakening follows insight into the principles of impermanence and causality. Eventually Susı̄ma confesses his misdeed.

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