Dependent Origination

1. Dependent Origination

2. The Cycle of Dependent Origination – twelve links

3. Ignorance –Mental blindness or unknowing: non-penetration or concealment of the real nature of the object • The Truth of Suffering • The Origin of Suffering • The Cessation of Suffering • The Path Leading to the Cessation of Suffering • The past Five Aggregates • The future Five Aggregates • The past and the future Five Aggregates together • Specific conditionality and conditionally-arisen states including kamma and its consequences.

4. Kammic Formations • The volition in the12 types of unwholesome consciousness (8 rooted in greed, 2 rooted in anger, 2 rooted in delusion). • The volition in the 8 types of sense-sphere wholesome consciousness & 4 associated with knowledge and 4 dissociated from knowledge. • The volition in the 5 types of wholesome consciousness pertaining to the fine-material sphere. • The volition in the 4 types of wholesome consciousness pertaining to the immaterial sphere.

5. Consciousness (refers to resultant consciousness) • At the rebirth linking moment. • In the course of an individual existence (or continuity).

6. Mind and Matter (Nama-råpa) • Here, mind is the three aggregates of feeling, perception and formations. They are called nama in Pali because of their bending (namana) on to the object. • Matter is the four great materiality with the derived material phenomena from it.

7. 6 Sense Bases • eye-sensitivity • ear-sensitivity • nose-sensitivity • tongue-sensitivity • body-sensitivity • the mind base

8. Contact • The impingement of the six sense objects (visible objects, sound, smell, taste, tangible objects and mental objects) •  Six sense bases •  Consciousness •  CONTACT

9. Contact

10. Feeling“like a bubble, perishing immediately after it forms” • When the six sense objects impinge on the respective six sense bases, six classes of feeling are formed: • feeling born of eye-contact • feeling born of ear-contact • feeling born of nose-contact • feeling born of tongue- contact • feeling born of body-contact • feeling born of mind-contact

11. Craving • There are six kinds of craving: • craving for visible objects • sounds • smells • tastes • tangible objects • mental objects

12. Clinging – intense craving • Clinging to sensual pleasure is lust, greed, delight in and infatuation with sensual desires. • Clinging to false views is with the view that is no giving, no offering, no kamma and its result (eg, no morality, no virtues a creator exists etc). • Clinging to rites and rituals - the adherence to the view that purification and attainment of Nibbāna comes through rites and rituals. • Clinging to doctrine of self is clinging to a self, seeing conscious as self; feeling as self; perception as self; formation as self; materiality as self.

13. Becoming • Kammic activities, both wholesome and unwholesome, that constitute kamma that generates rebirth

14. Birth • The first manifestation of any aggregates in a new existence

15. Decay • Death – breakup of aggregates • Sorrow – burning in the mind • Lamentation – crying out after loss • Pain – pain in the body • Grief – pain in mind • Despair – loss of hope Thus arises the whole mass of suffering

16. The 3 Rounds

17. Attainment of (Arahant) Path and Fruition Knowledge Ignorance ceases The whole chain of Dependent Origination breaks down ignorance ceases  kammic formations ceases  re-linking consciousness ceases  mind & matter ceases  6 sense base ceases  contact ceases  feelinsg cease  craving ceases  clinging ceases  becoming ceases  birth does not arise  death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, depression, despair do not arise  the entire mass of suffering ceases