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Āhāra

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Āhāra (‘food’ or ‘nutrition’). In the Pāli Nikāyas, āhāra sums up the whole teaching of the Buddha in relation to the living being, including the ‘Doctrine of Dependent Origination’, paticca-samuppāda. The basic perception is that ‘all beings live on food’ (sabbe sattā āhāraṭṭhitika, Digha Nikāya iii. 211). This statement covers the whole nature of a living organism, which depends not only on material food but also psychic food, for its sustenance.

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āhāra

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āhāra (Pāli, nutriment). Four kinds of ‘food’ in the literal and figurative senses listed in Pāli sources. These are: (1) solid food that nourishes the body (kabaliṅkārāhāra); (2) sensory and mental impressions (phassa) which are the support of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feelings; (3) mental volitions (mano-sañcetanā) which produce karma; (4) consciousness (viññāṇa, Skt., vijñāna) as the condition of mind and body (nāma-rūpa) at conception.

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