With the cessation of Birth, Decay, Death, Sorrow, Lamentation, Pain, Grief, and Despair cease. With the cessation of Becoming, Birth ceases. With the cessation of Grasping, Becoming ceases. With the cessation of Craving, Grasping ceases. With the cessation of Feeling, Craving ceases. With the cessation of Contact, Feeling ceases. With the cessation of the Six Spheres of Sense, Contact ceases. ![]() With the cessation of Mind and Matter, the six Spheres of Sense cease. With the cessation of ( Relinking) Consciousness, Mind and Matter cease. With the cessation of Conditioning Activities ( Relinking) Consciousness ceases. With the cessation of Ignorance, Conditioning Activities cease. In the middle watch of the night the Exalted One thoroughly reflected on “The Dependent Arising” in reverse order thus: “When this cause does not exist, this effect is not with the cessation of this cause, this effect ceases. “When, indeed, the Truths become manifest unto the strenuous, meditative Brahmana, then do all his doubts vanish away, since he knows the truth together with its cause.” Throughout the first week [after his enlightenment) the Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree in one posture, experiencing the Bliss of Emancipation ( Vimutti Sukha).Īfter those seven days had elapsed, the Buddha emerged from the state of concentration, and in the first watch of the night, thoroughly reflected on “The Dependent Arising” ( Paticca Samuppada) in direct order thus: “When this ( cause) exists, this ( effect) is with the arising of this ( cause), this effect arises.” JARAMARANA – AGING & DEATH – Old age and death.īy means of further explanation and illustration, we quote from Chapter 4 (“After The Enlightenment”) of the book “The Buddha and His Teachings” by Narada… Birth is the direct door to sickness, aging, and death.ġ2. JATI – BIRTH – Being born into this world. ![]() BHAVA – EXISTENCE – Existence, as the Karmic effect of causes set in motion.ġ1. UPADANA – GRASPING – Clinging to life.ġ0. TRISHNA ( TANHA in Pali) – ATTACHMENT/ DESIRE – The thirst for physical, objective, sensual existence (includes lust or Kama).ĩ.
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