Dear DC,
Op 7-jan-2010, om 9:47 heeft DC Wijeratna het volgende geschreven:

> However, I feel samudayadhamma refers to the first noble truth and
> > nirodhadhamma. m to the the 3rd noble truth.

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N: In this context, yes. It can be said that arising is dukkha. At
rebirth kamma produces the rebirth-consciousness and ruupas at the
same time. Whatever arises because of conditions has to fall away, it
is dukkha. Being in the cycle of birth and death is dukkha.
The development of the eightfold Path leads to liberation from the
cycle and when arahatship is reached ignorance and clinging have been
eradicated. After the final passing away of the arahat there will not
be anymore arising of naama and ruupa at rebirth, this is the ceasing
(nirodha) of conditioned dhammas.
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In several suttas the exposition of the Dependent Origination and the
four Truths are combined and different classifications are possible.
Venerable Bodhi writes : <It will be noted that, as the twelvefold
formula accounts for the
origin and cessation of suffering, it offers an expanded version of
the second and third noble truths. In fact, in one sutta (A.III,61,
i,177) the two sides of the formula are stated in full as
explanations of these two truths.>

We read in A, Book of the Threes, Ch VII. § 61: <Conditioned by
ignorance the activities comes to be...This, monks, is called 'The
ariyan truth of the arising of Ill'. >
We then read about the ending of ignorance, and that this is the
third noble truth, 'the making Ill to cease'.

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(Book of the Threes, A I, 176):
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Again, In Vis. Ch XVII, 300, the links that were classified as a
fivefold cause (ignorance, kamma-formations, craving, clinging and
volition which is kamma-process becoming and the links that were
classified as a fivefold fruit: rebirth-linking, which is
'consciousness', descent [into the womb], which is 'mentality-
materiality', sensitivity, which is 'sense base', contact and feeling.
Those classified as cause are here called the second truth, the
origin of dukkha, and those classified as result are here called the
first truth, dukkha.
So long as there is birth one continues in the cycle and this is
dukkha. This is all brought about by ignorance, kamma-formations and
the other links which are causes.
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Nina.


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