Dependent Origination

The Cycle of Dependent Origination – twelve links Ignorance  Kammic formations Consciousness  Mind & Matter Sixth Sense Basis  Contact Feelings  Craving Clinging  Becoming Birth  Decay death, sorrow, lamentation pain, grief and despair

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.

Kammic Formations 1. The volition in the12 types of unwholesome consciousness (8 rooted in greed, 2 rooted in anger, 2 rooted in delusion). 2. The volition in the 8 types of sense-sphere wholesome consciousness & 4 associated with knowledge and 4 dissociated from knowledge. 3. The volition in the 5 types of wholesome consciousness pertaining to the fine-material sphere. 4. The volition in the 4 types of wholesome consciousness pertaining to the immaterial sphere.

Consciousness (refers to resultant consciousness) 1. At the rebirth linking moment. 1. In the course of an individual existence (or continuity).

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.

6 Sense Bases 1. eye-sensitivity 2. ear-sensitivity 3. nose-sensitivity 4. tongue-sensitivity 5. body-sensitivity 6. the mind base

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

CONTACT 6 sense objects Consciousness 6 sense bases Contact

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

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

Clinging – intense craving 1. Clinging to sensual pleasure is lust, greed, delight in and infatuation with sensual desires. 2. 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). 3. Clinging to rites and rituals - the adherence to the view that purification and attainment of Nibb ā na comes through rites and rituals. 4. 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.

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

Birth The first manifestation of any aggregates in a new existence

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

Round of KAMMA (kammic formations, becoming) Round of Result (Consciousness, mind-matter, 6 sense bases, contact, feeling) Round of defilement (ignorance, craving, clinging) The 3 Rounds

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