This is a collection of my correspondence with readers preserved over the years. They have been put together as a book in the hope that it will clarify some deep points for those with inquisitive minds who wish to delve deep into the depths of the Dhamma. Except in a few instances, we have substituted the initials for the names of the questioners. The majority of the correspondence were in English. Only three were in Sinhala. Bhikkhu K. Ñāṇananda………..
……….There is hardly any teaching that has given rise to more internal disputes among Buddhists than paṭiccasamuppāda. My next question is based on a comment by Bhante Ñāṇananda, which considers paṭiccasamuppāda as the golden mean between atthitā (existence) and natthitā (non-existence), replacing them with samudaya (arising) and vaya (passing away). “Everyone knows that the middle way is the noble eightfold path. Everyone knows that the first sermon was the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta.
But if for some reason Āḷārakālāma or Uddaka Rāmaputta were alive, what we would have as the Dhammacakkappavattana would be something short like the Bāhiya Sutta, because they were facing a duality of a different nature…
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