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Essay name: Ahara as depicted in the Pancanikaya

Author: Le Chanh
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages

This critical study of Ahara (“food�) explores its significance in Buddhism, encompassing both physical and mental nourishment. The Panca Nikaya, part of the Sutta Pitaka, highlights how all human problems, including suffering and happiness, are connected to Ahara. Understanding this concept is crucial for comprehending and alleviating suffering, aiming for a balanced, enlightened life.

Chapter 7 - Conclusion

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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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Immeasurable Minds. With these values, the lessons in all schools do aim
at improving the health, the six internal sense bases, and eliminating
wrong wishes, ill consciousness, and thoughts in relation to the idea "I"
and “mine� as a means to true happiness. The final goal of education is to
help people attain true happiness, therefore if the lessons that contain
matterthat is full of insipid and vapid knowledge stimulate craving,
grasping, competition, and struggle and that kind of education does not
execute its rightly role and discharge its responsibility.
If education regards not-self thought, the doctrine of Dependent
Origination and the Four Noble Truth as noble nutrition for its
development, education will discover a correct way for "what to
educate/feed/nourish� and “how to educate/feed/nourish� men, then it
helps people to identify what they really are, what the world really is,
and get rid of all causes/foods/sufferings from them so that they are
prepared for happiness in the here-and-now. Such is solution for
"educational crisis."
The above are solutions for the current food crisis and other related
interdependent crises.
"A critical study of āhāra and its importance as depicted in the
Pañca Nikaya" that has opened for us a new avenue for food of human
beings and has asserted where the source of true nutrition of human
beings is. It is time for us to make a choice between the two sources of
nutrition: the first one is considering the satisfaction of one's desire for
the four types of foods as a means to one's happiness and the satisfaction
of the foods in relation to the wishes "I am this," "I will be thus," "I will
not be thus" as the basis on which all values in life are based. The second
one is accepting the consumption of the four kinds of food in moderation,
with non-attachment, with the control of one's desire, with right view and

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