05/04/2025
It is helpful to have a working knowledge of the eleven links in
the cycle of Dependent Origination. Even such theoretical
knowledge will point you in the right direction and provide the
potential to be free of the conditioning it causes:
1. With Ignorance as a condition, Karmic Formations or
Volitional Actions arise;
2. With Volitional Actions as a condition
Consciousness arises;
3. With Consciousness as a condition
Mentality/Materiality arises;
4. With Mentality/Materiality as a condition, the Six
Sense Bases arise;
5. With the Six Sense Bases as a condition, Contact
(sense impressions) arise;
6. With Sense Impressions as a condition, Feelings
(vedana) arise;
7. With Feelings as a condition, Grasping arises;
8. With grasping as a condition, Clinging arises;
9. With clinging as a condition, Attachment arises;
10. With Attachment as a condition, Becoming arises;
11. With Becoming as a condition, Pain, old age, and
death arise, i.e. conditioned suffering.