Early Buddhism

Phagguna of the Top-Knot

Moḷiyaphaggunasutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
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Venerable Moḷiyaphagguna asks who eats the consciousness food. The Buddha says the question is improper, as it assumes a self as agent. Rather, all the factors of dependent origination are simply natural conditions and have nothing to do with a “self”.

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