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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dewage55" data-source="post: 6449645" data-attributes="member: 70940">What is the process of Becoming?[FONT=&quot]A friend asked: [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Conditioned by clinging, does becoming come into being... What is Becoming?[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Answer: [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Cut short[/FONT][FONT=&quot]: Becoming is the process whereby the next moment arises...This next moment has both physical and mental properties and is as suchdependent upon consciousness... If no clinging is present in this moment,no next moment will arise for that Arahat individuality... That is Nibbāna!Every new moment and thus also the death-rebirth-moment is the result ofthis process of becoming, which drives all change and push time forward![/FONT][FONT=&quot]In more detail:[/FONT][FONT=&quot]T[/FONT][FONT=&quot]he process of becoming can take place in three planes or dimensions:1: Becoming in the plane of sense desire (kāma-bhava), which is what drives the life-process forward for all ghosts, animals, humans and lower devas.  [/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]2: Becoming in the plane of fine-material existence (rūpa-bhava), which is what drives the life-process forward for higher devas like e.g. Brahma etc.[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]3: Becoming in the plane of formless existence (arūpa-bhava), which is what drives the life-process forward for the highest formless devas.On this Buddhist Cosmology of these three main dimensions please study:[/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html" target="_blank">The 31 Planes of Existence</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]:[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html" target="_blank">http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]This process of becoming have two sides:[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The active side: Where new advantageous or detrimental intentional actions(kamma-bhava) create delayed future resultant forms of high or low rebirth.The passive resultant side: Where this rebirth in every moment & in betweenlives recreates or regenerates mental and material phenomena of existence.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]There are the two kinds of craving related to becoming![/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]1: Craving for Becoming: Examples: May I become rich, famous, praised, satisfied, beautiful, happy...2: Craving for Non-Becoming:Examples: May I not become sick, criticized, poor, ugly, old, dead, unhappy...As these states are uncontrollable, both kinds of craving create suffering![/FONT][FONT=&quot]<img src="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=27288ea9de&view=att&th=1263968a470d8d24&attid=0.0.2&disp=emb&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=27288ea9de&view=att&th=1263968a470d8d24&attid=0.0.3&disp=emb&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Blessed Buddha explained the process of Becoming ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/bhava.htm" target="_blank">bhava)</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot] like this:[/FONT][FONT=&quot]At Savatthi. "Monks, there are these four floods. Which four? The flood of sensuality, the flood of becoming, the flood of views, and the flood of ignorance. These are the four floods." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn45" target="_blank">SN v 59</a>[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]"Monks, there are these four yokes. Which four? The yoke of sensuality, the yoke of becoming, the yoke of views, andthe yoke of ignorance. And what is the yoke of becoming? There is the case where a certain person does not understand, as it really is,the arising, the passing away, the allure, the drawbacks, and the escape from becoming. When he does not understand this becoming, as it really is, he becomes obsessed with passion, delight, attraction, infatuation, thirst, and fascinated fever for new forms of becoming. Thereby he then induces craving for becoming something new: To go further, wandering-on, heading to new birth & ever repeated death! This is the yoke of becoming..." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.010.than.html" target="_blank">AN ii 10</a>[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "There are these three searches. Which three? The search for sensuality, the search for becoming, the search for a holy noble life. These are the three searches." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/iti/iti.3.050-099.than.html" target="_blank">Iti 44-98</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"What is the origin of suffering? The craving that induce further becoming,accompanied by passion and delight, relishing now here & later there, that is: Craving for sensing, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming...This is called the origin of suffering." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.009.than.html" target="_blank">MN i 46</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"From the arising of becoming, comes the arising of birth. From the ceasing of becoming, comes the ceasing of birth. And the way leading to the ceasing of birth is just this very noble eightfold path: Right view, right motivation, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right awareness, and right concentration." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.009.than.html" target="_blank">MN i 46</a>[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]"And what is becoming? What is the arising of becoming? What is the ceasing of becoming? What is the way leading to the cessation of becoming?[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]There are these three forms of becoming: Sensual becoming, fine material becoming, and formless becoming. This is called becoming. From the arising of clinging comes the arising of becoming. From the ceasing of clinging comes the ceasing of becoming. And the way of practice leading to the ceasing of becoming is just this very noble eightfold path: Right view, right motivation, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right awareness, and right concentration." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.009.than.html" target="_blank">MN i 46</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging...From clinging as a requisite condition comes becoming... From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth...From birth as a requisite condition comes ageing, decay, sickness and death! So is the emergence of this entire mass of suffering!"  [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.15.0.than.html" target="_blank">D ii 55</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"Having seen danger right in the process of becoming itself, and in searching for new forms of becoming or for non-becoming, I didn't affirm any kind of becoming, or cling to any kind of delight in becoming." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.049.than.html" target="_blank">MN i 326</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot] "What are these four noble truths? They are the noble truth of suffering; the noble truth of the origin of suffering; the noble truth of the cessation of suffering; and the noble truth of the way to the cessation of suffering. When these profound truths, bhikkhus, have been realized and penetrated, then craving for existence is cut off, destroyed is that process which leads to renewed becoming, & there is not created fresh future becoming." [/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.16.1-6.vaji.html" target="_blank">DN ii 72</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]<img src="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=27288ea9de&view=att&th=1263968a470d8d24&attid=0.0.4&disp=emb&zw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Any form of Becoming proliferates into Suffering...[FONT=&quot]<a href="http://what-buddha-said.net/" target="_blank">http://What-Buddha-Said.net</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</blockquote>

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