The Buddha's teaching on the conditions for the phenomena of our life has been laid down in the last of the seven books of the Abhidhamma, the "Paṭṭhāna", or "Causal Conditions and Relations".
Download Sahajatapaccayo.mp3 Now: Linksahajātapaccayo'ti:cattāro khandhā arūpino aññamaññaṃ sahajātapaccayena paccayo.cattāro mahābhūtā aññamaññaṃ sahajātapaccayena paccayo.okkantikkhaṇe nāmarūpaṃ aññamaññaṃ sahajātapaccayena paccayo.cittacetasikā dhammā cittasamuṭṭhānānaṃ rūpānaṃ sahajātapaccayena paccayo.mahābhūtā upādārūpānaṃ sahajātapaccayena paccayo.rūpino dhammā arūpinaṃ dhammānaṃ kiñci kāle sahajātapaccayena paccayo.kiñci kāle na sahajātapaccayena paccayo.Translation:6. Co-nascence Condition (Sahajāta Paccaya)i. The four incorporeal (i.e. mental) aggregates are mutually related to one another by co-nascence condition.ii. The four great essentials (mahābhūtas) are mutually related to one another by co-nascenece condition.iii. At the moment of conception, mentality (paṭisandhi citta) and corporeality (kammaja-rūpa) are mutually related to each other by co-nascence conditioniv. Consciousness and its concomitants are related to the mind produced corporeality (cittaja-rūpa) by co-nascence condition.v. The great essentials are related to their derived matter (upādā-rūpa) by co-nascence condition.vi. Material phenomena are sometimes related to immaterial (i.e. mental) phenomena by co-nascence condition and are sometimes not related by co-nascence condition.
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