Cetanāsutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Nidānavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 16 · Section 145

[145] He was dwelling at Sāvatthī. … "Bhikkhus, whatever one intends, whatever one plans, and whatever one has an underlying tendency toward: this becomes a basis (ārammaṇa) for the maintenance of consciousness (viññāṇa). When there is a basis, there is a support for the establishing of consciousness. When that consciousness is established and has come to growth, there is the production of renewed existence in the future. When there is the production of renewed existence in the future, then in the future birth (jāti), aging, and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair come to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering (dukkha). "Bhikkhus, if one does not intend and does not plan, but one still has an underlying tendency toward something: this becomes a basis for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis, there is a support for the establishing of consciousness. When that consciousness is established and has come to growth, there is the production of renewed existence in the future. When there is the production of renewed existence in the future, then in the future birth, aging, and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair come to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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