![]() ![]() (i) The past cause of ignorance and karmic formations lead to the result of (ii) one’s consciousness of the present life and the links up until becoming, through which one accumulates the karma through the negative emotions of craving and attachment, The twelve links can be explained as a process occurring over three lifetimes: Wheat seeds produce wheat crops and virtue produces happiness, so there is a correlation between cause and effect: they are of a similar continuum.Tiny seeds can grow into enormous trees, so therefore small causes can produce large effects.The seed and the sprout are not one in terms of their identity or their function, so the former is not transferred into the latter.Since there is not interruption of the continuum, there is no discontinuance. The cessation of the seed and the growth of the sprout occur simultaneously like the two sides of a set of scales, or a see-saw: one goes up as the other goes down. The sprout does not arise from discontinuance, the seed having ceased completely.The sprout, for example, arises after the seed has ceased and not while the seed is present unceasingly.The Dependent Origination of causes and effects has five special features: the support which is the particular sense faculty.fire element through which digestion occursįor a consciousness, such as eye consciousness, to occur, five things must come together:.The other seven links, which are known as the ‘bases of suffering’, arise with the assistance of the six elements as co-operating conditions: The same conditions assist in the arising of the two links of karma-formations and becoming. ![]() ![]() Ignorance, craving and grasping-the three links that are disturbing emotions-arise with the co-operating conditions of the six faculties and their respective objects. In the case of inner phenomena, the related causes are the twelve links: These six act as cooperating conditions and assist in the growth from seed to flower. The following seven are the perpetuating causes, the stages of development: So the dependent origination of all outer phenomena can be understood through the example of a seed developing into a sprout, with seven related causes and six related conditions: nang gi chos)-the aggregates of supreme, intermediate or lesser beings-arise through dependent origination in the manner of the twelve links.
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