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 (鈥渇ood鈥�) 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.
Appendix 1 - Buddha's teachings on Ahara (Pali texts and English translations)
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of mind. Unsystematic attention to that, monks, is this food for the arising of
excitement and flurry not yet arisen. . .
And what, monks, is food for the arising of doubt and wavering not yet arisen,
or for the more-becoming and growth thereof, if already arisen? It is things which are
based on doubt and wavering. Unsystematic attention to that, monks, is this food for
the arising of doubt and waverring not yet arisen, or for the more-becoming and
growth of doubt and wavering that have already arisen.
II. The food of the limbs of wisdom
And what, monks, is food for the arising of the limb of wisdom that is mindfulness
not yet arisen, or for the cultivation and fulfillment thereof, if already arisen?
There are, monks, things based on the limb of wisdom that is mindfulness.
Systematic attention thereto, if made much of, is this food for the arising of mindfulness.
And what, monk, is food for the arising of Norm-investigation which has not yet
arisen, or for the cultivation and fulfillment thereof of already arisen?
There are, monks, things good and bad, things blameworthy and things not
blameworthy, things mean and things exalted, things that are constituent parts of
darkness and light. Systematic attention thereto, if made much of, is this food for the
arising of the limb of wisdom which is Norm-investigation, if not yet arisen (or for the
more-becoming and growth thereof), for its cultivation and fulfillment, if already arisen.
And what, monks, is food for the arising of limb of wisdom that is energy not
yet arisen, or for the cultivation and fulfillment thereof, if already arisen?
There is, monks, the element of putting forth effort, the element of exertion, the
element of striving. Systematic attention thereto, if made much of, is this food..
And what, monks, is food for the arising of the limb of wisdom that is zest which
has not yet arisen, or for the cultivation and fulfillment thereof, if already arisen?
There are, monks, things based on the limb of wisdom that is zest. Systematic
attention thereto, if made much of, is this food the arising . . .
And what, monks, is food for the arising of the limb of wisdom that is tranquility
which has not yet arisen, ot for the cultivation and fulfillment thereof, if already arisen?
There is, monks, tranquility of body and there is tranquility of mind. Systematic
attention thereto, if made much of, is food for the arising of the limb of wisdom that is
tranquility which has not yet arisen, (or for the more-becoming and growth thereof),
for its cultivation and fulfillment, if already arisen.
