> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # SN 12:20 · Requisite Conditions (Paccaya Sutta) - URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-12-20/ - Published: 2026-06-01T01:56:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-13T16:38:01.000Z - Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:20. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. - Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) - Tags: Buddhism, Sutta Piṭaka, Text, Indian, The Buddha, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, Discourse, Pali, Early Buddhist, Library Staying near Sāvatthī … “Monks, I will teach you dependent co-arising & dependently co-arisen phenomena. Listen & pay close attention. I will speak.” “As you say, lord,” the monks replied. The Blessed One said: “Now what is dependent co-arising? From birth as a requisite condition comes aging-&-death. Whether or not there is the arising of Tathāgatas, this property stands—this regularity of the Dhamma, this orderliness of the Dhamma, this this/that conditionality. The Tathāgata directly awakens to that, breaks through to that. Directly awakening & breaking through to that, he declares it, teaches it, describes it, sets it forth. He reveals it, explains it, makes it plain, & says, ‘Look.’ From birth as a requisite condition comes aging-&-death. “From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth.… “From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming.… “From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance.… “From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving.… “From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling.… “From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contact.… “From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media.… “From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form.… “From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness.… “From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. Whether or not there is the arising of Tathāgatas, this property stands—this regularity of the Dhamma, this orderliness of the Dhamma, this this/that conditionality. The Tathāgata directly awakens to that, breaks through to that. Directly awakening & breaking through to that, he declares it, teaches it, describes it, sets it forth. He reveals it, explains it, makes it plain, & says, ‘Look.’ From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. What’s there in this way is a reality, not an unreality, not other than what it seems, conditioned by this/that. This is called dependent co-arising. “And what are dependently co-arisen phenomena? Aging-&-death are dependently co-arisen phenomena: inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen, subject to ending, subject to passing away, subject to fading, subject to cessation. “Birth is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “Becoming is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “Clinging/sustenance is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “Craving is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “Feeling is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “Contact is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “The six sense media are dependently co-arisen phenomena.… “Name-&-form is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “Consciousness is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.… “Fabrications are dependently co-arisen phenomena.… “Ignorance is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon: inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen, subject to ending, subject to passing away, subject to fading, subject to cessation. These are called dependently co-arisen phenomena. “When a disciple of the noble ones has seen well with right discernment this dependent co-arising & these dependently co-arisen phenomena as they have come to be, it is not possible that he would run after the past, thinking, ‘Was I in the past? Was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what was I in the past?’ or that he would run after the future, thinking, ‘Shall I be in the future? Shall I not be in the future? What shall I be in the future? How shall I be in the future? Having been what, what shall I be in the future?’ or that he would be inwardly perplexed about the immediate present, thinking, ‘Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound?’ Such a thing is not possible. Why is that? Because the disciple of the noble ones has seen well with right discernment this dependent co-arising & these dependently co-arisen phenomena as they have come to be.” See also: [MN 2](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/mn-2/); [MN 38](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/mn-38/); [SN 22:47](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-22-47/); [AN 4:199–200](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/an-4-199/); [Ud 5:7](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/ud-5-7/); [Ud 6:5–6](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/ud-6-5/) --- *Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) licence, for free distribution only. Source: [dhammatalks.org](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN12%5F20.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) (Metta Forest Monastery).*