Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification)
by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu | 1956 | 388,207 words | ISBN-10: 9552400236 | ISBN-13: 9789552400236
This page describes The Truth of the Origin of Suffering (samudaya) of the section The Faculties and Truths (indriya-sacca-niddesa) of Part 3 Understanding (Paññā) of the English translation of the Visuddhimagga (‘the path of purification’) which represents a detailled Buddhist meditation manual, covering all the essential teachings of Buddha as taught in the Pali Tipitaka. It was compiled Buddhaghosa around the 5th Century.
The Truth of the Origin of Suffering (samudaya)
61. But in the description of the origin, the expression yāyaṃ taṇhā (that craving which) = yā ayaṃ taṇhā. [As regards the expression] produces further becoming: it is a making become again, thus it is “becoming again” (punabbhava); becoming again is its habit, thus it “produces further becoming” (ponobbhavika). The expression nandirāgasahagatā (accompanied by concern and greed) = nandirāgena sahagatā; what is meant is that it is identical in meaning with delight and greed. Concerned with this and that: wherever personality is generated there is concern with that. The expression that is to say (seyyathidaṃ) is a particle; its meaning is “which is that.” Craving for sense desires, craving for becoming, craving for nonbecoming will be explained in the Description of Dependent Origination (XVII.233ff.). Although this is threefold, it should nevertheless be understood as “the noble truth of the origin of suffering,” taking it as one in the sense of its generating the truth of suffering.