Chants & Mantras

Avijjā-paccayā saṅkhārā,
Ignorance: the mind not knowing its formless nature, or reality, seeks a shape

Saṅkhāra-paccayā viññāṇaṃ
Taking shape in familiar patterning and habits conditions a sense of ‘self’

Viññāṇa-paccayā nāma-rūpaṃ
With self-consciousness arises the appearance of other & dualistic-consciousness

Nāma-rūpa-paccayā saḷāyatanaṃ,
‘Subject-object’ conditions complexity at the sense doors

Saḷāyatana-paccayā phasso,
Experiencing an ‘it’ and ‘me’ gives rise to contact

Phassa-paccayā vedanā,
Contact registers as feeling, activating old perceptions, memories and reactivity

Vedanā-paccayā taṇhā,
Pleasant, unpleasant, neutral feeling stimulates desire, aversion & confusion

Taṇhā-paccayā upādānaṃ,
The momentum of wanting / not wanting tends toward a position, view, stance

Upādāna-paccayā bhavo,
With persistent clinging, self-view solidifies generating becoming ‘someone’

Bhava-paccayā jāti,
With aims, ambitions, strategies arises the full birth of self and self-preservation

Jāti-paccayā jarā-maraṇaṃ
The full emergence of self as a separate entity conditions death

Soka-parideva dukkha-domanassupāyāsā sambhavanti.
Evam-etassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa, samudayo hoti.
And the inevitable breakup of the psychological foundations of self, leading to dukkha: suffering, loss, disorientation, grief, lamentation & sorrow

Avijjāyatveva asesa-virāga-nirodhā saṅkhāra-nirodho,
With the ending of ignorance, dispassion & identification with patterning dissolves

Saṅkhāra-nirodhā viññāṇa-nirodho,
As the mind releases from conditioning, dualistic consciousness ceases

Viññāṇa-nirodhā nāma-rūpa-nirodho,
As sensory consciousness quiets and releases, ‘subject-object’ dissolves

Nāma-rūpa-nirodhā saḷāyatana-nirodho,
As subject-object collapses, sensory fixation no longer compels

Saḷāyatana-nirodhā phassa-nirodho,
Freed from sensory fixation, contact is freed from confusion & complexity

Phassa-nirodhā vedanā-nirodho,
Release from reactivity at contact, feeling is freed from push & pull

Vedanā-nirodhā taṇhā-nirodho,
As feeling is freed from compulsion, craving and aversion dissolve

Taṇhā-nirodhā upādāna-nirodho,
As craving dissolves, the habitual creation of self is relinquished

Upādāna-nirodhā bhava-nirodho,
With no self to defend, the habitual drive for aims & ambitions relaxes

Bhava-nirodhā jāti-nirodho,
As becoming empties, self-view no longer operates as the fulcrum of being

Jāti-nirodhā jarā-maraṇaṃ
As the separate self releases, dukkha ends

Soka-parideva-dukkha-domanassupāyāsā nirujjhanti.
Evam-etassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa, nirodho hoti.
The whole mass of dukkha; suffering, grief, sorrow and lamentation, ceases
(The light of freedom rises.)