[Buddha-l] Dependent arising variants

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Dan Lusthaus schreef:

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>So the four are:
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>1. hetu-pratyaya
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>2. ālambana-pratyaya
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>3. anantara-pratyaya
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>4. adhipati-pratyaya
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>Alambana is concerned with cognitive conditions, not wiring.
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It is the material object that causes knowledge.

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>Anantara basically involves a cause immediately preceding its effect,
>without gap. This is a way of dealing with causal chains, sequential
>occurrences, series, etc. This one Garfield seems to get right.
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It is the preceding moment of a dharma that causes next dharma to 
appear, without this any dharma could come from any dharma.

>Adhipati-pratyaya usually involves a specific list of causal factors (heat,
>life, male, female, etc.), most commonly a list of 22 such factors.
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Where did you get this, Dan?
I've read another explanation: it is in fact another kind of causation. 
I would translate it as dominating obsessions and trauma's. There are 
two kinds: internal and external. The internal one is an idea or emotion 
that influences perception or thought, the external one is a perception 
that is dominant over other perceptions and influences them.

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>> Suppose that you ask, "Why are the lights on?" I might reply as
>> follows: < >. Or, (4) "So that we can see." This is the
>> dominant condition. Any of these would be a perfectly good answer to
>> the "Why?" question. But note that none of them makes reference to any
>> causal powers or necessitation.
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Here Garfield appearantly remembers the final cause of Aristotle.


Erik


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