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-  :: Notice that the Buddha, instead of giving a definition of becoming //(bhava)// in response to this question, simply notes that becoming occurs on three levels. Nowhere in the suttas does he define the term //becoming,// but a survey of how he uses the term in different contexts suggests that it means a sense of identity in a particular world of experience: your sense of what you are, focused on a particular desire, in your personal sense of the world as related to that desire. In other words, it is both a psychological and a cosmological concept. For more on this topic, see //{{:en:lib:authors/thanissaro/paradoxofbecoming.pdf|The Paradox of Becoming,}}// Introduction and Chapter One.
+  :: Notice that the Buddha, instead of giving a definition of becoming //(bhava)// in response to this question, simply notes that becoming occurs on three levels. Nowhere in the suttas does he define the term //becoming,// but a survey of how he uses the term in different contexts suggests that it means a sense of identity in a particular world of experience: your sense of what you are, focused on a particular desire, in your personal sense of the world as related to that desire. In other words, it is both a psychological and a cosmological concept. For more on this topic, see //{{:en:lib:authors/thanissaro/paradoxofbecoming_en.pdf|The Paradox of Becoming,}}// Introduction and Chapter One.
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-  :: In this analogy, "kamma" apparently means intention and the result of intention, both past and present. This would thus cover the six sense media ([[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn35:sn35.145.than|SN 35.145]]), the first four of the aggregates ([[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn22:sn22.054.than|SN 22.54]]), and the four nutriments for consciousness ([[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn12:sn12.064.than|SN 12.64]]). As the analogy here suggests, these elements of experience create the range of possibilities for a sense of becoming. If your past and present kamma don't contain a particular possibility, a corresponding type of becoming can't be developed. The only becomings you can experience are those from within the range of possibilities provided by your kamma. Consciousness and craving locate a particular opportunity from those possibilities that, through the nourishment of craving, they develop into an actual state of becoming. A similar analogy appears in [[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn22:sn22.054.than|SN 22.54]]. For more on this topic, see //{{:en:lib:authors/thanissaro/paradoxofbecoming.pdf|The Paradox of Becoming,}}// Chapter Two.
+  :: In this analogy, "kamma" apparently means intention and the result of intention, both past and present. This would thus cover the six sense media ([[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn35:sn35.145.than|SN 35.145]]), the first four of the aggregates ([[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn22:sn22.054.than|SN 22.54]]), and the four nutriments for consciousness ([[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn12:sn12.064.than|SN 12.64]]). As the analogy here suggests, these elements of experience create the range of possibilities for a sense of becoming. If your past and present kamma don't contain a particular possibility, a corresponding type of becoming can't be developed. The only becomings you can experience are those from within the range of possibilities provided by your kamma. Consciousness and craving locate a particular opportunity from those possibilities that, through the nourishment of craving, they develop into an actual state of becoming. A similar analogy appears in [[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn22:sn22.054.than|SN 22.54]]. For more on this topic, see //{{:en:lib:authors/thanissaro/paradoxofbecoming_en.pdf|The Paradox of Becoming,}}// Chapter Two.
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