Dukkha and Tanha

gingerjack · 06-19-2005, 10:41 PM

How is dukkha a source in tanha ?i dont get this idea
does this have to do anything with nature vs operation of a item ? plz help thanks

Vajradhara · 06-20-2005, 04:41 PM

Namaste Gingerjack,

thank you for the post.

it is only for a linguist convention that we list something as the cause of something else, in Buddhism. our teaching, in this regard, is called Interdependent Co-Arising which, simplistically, means "this is because that is and that is because this is."

therefore, in the 12-Linked Chain of Causation, each one of the phenomea is both the product of and the source of all the other links.

please review this thread for more information:

http://www.comparative-religion.com/...read.php?t=528