Key concepts from Seeing That Frees

Paticcasamuppada and related concepts

24th March 2020

Key concepts from Seeing That Frees by Rob Burbea

Anattā – not-self
Anicca – impermanence
Avijjā – ignorance
Bhava – becoming
Citta – heart/mind
Dukkha – suffering, unsatisfaction
Jarāmarana – decay-death
Jāti – birth
Nāmarūpa – mind-and-mattter, mentality-materiality
Papañca – conceptual proliferation
Phassa – contact
Salāyatana – six sense spheres
Sankhāra – fabrications, volitional formations
Tanhā – craving
Upādāna – clinging
Vedanā – feeling-tone
Viññāna – consciousness, knowing
Śūnyatā – emptiness

Dependently arising, and mutually empty!