MN 1: Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root Sequence
From the Majjhima Nikaya, "The Middle-Length Discourses", I present the abridged Mulapariyaya Sutta, "The Root Sequence" The Buddha once told the monks he'd teach them the root "sequence" of all phenomena. Then he said: "Ignorant, unenlightened people perceive things, conceive things about things, conceive other things coming out of those things, conceive of things as 'mine' and delight in them, and that's just because they don't comprehend them. The elements, the gods, the dimensions of consciousness, the objects of the senses, singleness, multiplicity, and The All themselves, they do this stuff about them all. They do the same thing to unbinding/liberation/nirvana, and it's all because they don't comprehend any of it" "Someone who yearns for the unexcelled relief from bondage should not do any of this stuff to anything, they shouldn't do all this conceiving about all this stuff, conceiving it as theirs, a...