The chariot analogy in SN 5:10

[Dhammanando]

@josephzizys

paññayati I can’t find at all.

Don’t forget the macron: paññāyati.

I actually posted an example only two years ago.

Philosophical Criticisms of Buddhism

But the possibility of a “first cause at some point” seems to be ruled out by what follows in the Avijjāsutta: ‘A first point of ignorance, bhikkhus, is not discerned (na paññāyati) such that before this there was no ignorance and afterward it came into being.’ Still, ignorance is seen to have a specific condition. “I say, bhikkhus, that ignorance has a nutriment; it is not without nutriment… etc. So it seems to me (pace Javier) that the na paññāyati (“is not discerned”) here is not just e…