What are the five kinds of seeds?
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What is consciousness together with its nutriment, that forms five kinds of seeds? What five?
From Ven. Bodhi's note in "Middle Length Discourses":
Nutriment (ahara) is to be understood here in a broad sense as a prominent condition for the individual life-process. Physical food(nurture the body), contact (nurture feeling), mental volition (nurture consciousness to manifest to 3 realms of existence: sense, form, and formless worlds), consciousness (nurture name/form or mentality/materiality at rebirth, the psycho-physical organism in its totality); these are the elements that help perpetuating samsara; Craving is the origin of nutriment since craving of the previous existence is the source of the present individuality with its dependence upon and continual consumptions of the four nutriments in this existence.
Also from Ven. Bodhi's note:
"Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of seeds. What five? Root-seeds, stem-seeds, joint-seeds, cutting-seeds, and germ-seeds as the fifth"[73] The five kinds of seeds (bija) are actually five means of propagation. Spk gives examples of the five kinds drawn from Vin IV 35.
And From Ven. Thanissaro's "The Buddhist Monastic Code":
The Vibhaºga defines bhÒtag›ma as vegetation arising from any of five sources:
- from bulbs, rhizomes, or tubers (e.g., potatoes, tulips),
- from cuttings or stakes (e.g., willows, rose bushes),
- from joints (e.g., sugar cane, bamboo),
- from runners (e.g., strawberries, couch grass), or
- from seeds (e.g., corn, beans).
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here Consciousness+nutriment is like the a seed, like in https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.077.than.html but with karma-field replacing the 4 stations-earth for the seed...
But the nutriment is dropped in the remaining of the sutta.
In SN22.54, it is not that there 5 kinds of consciousnesses. Consciousness is the 6 usual consciousnesses, but here it is just ''consciousness'' in singular, after the nutriment is dropped.
The goal is to prevent the seed from growing, which is done either by removing earth and/or water, or by damaging the seed directly. And the buddha says that the path to remove consciousness is really removing the craving which ''moisturizes'' it. Then consciousness is liberated and since there is no water, it does not grow again. Everybody wants to know what happens to the liberated consciousness, besides being liberated, but they all end up copying the Hindus.
If you really want to connect sāhāraṃ with the number five, you only this sutta https://suttacentral.net/an10.62/en/sujato about the usual ''fuel for craving for continued existence'', which is ignorance and the fuel for ignorance is''The five hindrances.’'' but here the focus is on craving, not consciousness .
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