Law of Dependent Origination

It states that all phenomenon arise depending upon a number of casual factors. In other word, it exists in condition that the other exist; it has in condition that others have; it extinguishes in condition that others extinguish; it has not in condition that others have not. For existence, there are twelve links in the chain: 

1. Ignorance is the condition for karmic activity;

2. Karmic activity is the condition for consciousness;

3. Consciousness is the condition for the name and form;

4. Name and form is the condition for the six sense organs;

5. Six sense organs are the condition for contact;

6. Contact is the condition for feeling;

7. Feeling is the condition for emotional love/craving;

8. Emotional love/craving is the condition for grasping;

9. Grasping is the condition for existing;

10. Existing is the condition for birth;

11. Birth is the condition for old age and death;

12. Old age and death is the condition for ignorance; back to (1) and the cycle continues...


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