Dhamma Facts (21)

Paticca-Samuppāda – The Cycle of Dependent Origination_Anuloma (Forward order)  
The formula of dependent origination runs as follows:
1.Avijiā-paccayā Sankhārā:
Through Ignorance are conditioned the Sankhāras, i.e. the rebirth-producing kamma-formations.
2.Sankhāra-paccayā Viññānam:
Through the Kamma-formations is conditioned Consciousness.
3.Viññāna-paccayā Nāma-Rūpam:
Through Consciousness are conditioned the mental and physical phenomena (Mind and Matter).
4.Nāma-Rūpa-paccayā Salāyatanam:
Through the Mental and Physical phenomena are conditioned the 6 Bases, i.e. the 5 physical sense-organs, and consciousness as the sixth.
5.Salāyatana-paccayā Phasso:
Through the 6 Bases is conditioned the (sensorial) Impression.
6.Phassa-paccayā Vedanā:
Through the Impression is conditioned Feeling.
7.Vedanā-paccayā Tanhā:
Through Feeling is conditioned Craving.
8.Tanhā-paccayā Upādānam:
Through Craving is conditioned Clinging.
9.Upādāna-paccayā Bhavo:
Through Clinging is conditioned the process of kamma-formations and Becoming (Kammabhava and Upapattibhava).
10.Bhava-paccayā Jāti:
Through the process of Becoming (rebirth-producing kamma) is conditioned Rebirth.
11.Jāti-paccayā jarā-maranam, soka-parideva-dukkha-domanassa-upayasa sambhavanti:
Through Rebirth are conditioned Old Age and Death, (Sorrow, Lamentation, Suffering, Grief and Despair).
Evametassa kevalassa dukkhakhandhassa samudayo hoti:
Thus arises this whole mass of suffering again in the future.
 
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