BUD510 MW2 Modes/Mental Events Ch 4: Nidanas/12 Links of Interdependence I

Question 1

1. Ignorance

Answer 1

The root of saṃsāra
(mistaking the continuum of the mind for a self - to be unitary, independent, permanent/duration)

Connate and Imputed

1. fixation on self of persons kleśāvaraṇa (skandha fixation, I, mine)
2. fixation on self of phenomena jñeyāvaraṇa (takes objects as real, knowledge obscuration)

Three Characteristics of Ignorance:

1. A cognition directedtowards it’s object
2. The object is extremely unclear
3. The continuum of mind is extremely unpacified or agitated

Question 2

2. Formation

Answer 2

The accumulation of karma

Generation of the primary mental afflictions of attachment, aversion and bewilderment.

Ten Nonvirtuous Actions

BODY
1. Killing
2. Stealing
3. Sexual misconduct
SPEECH
4. Lying
5. Slander
6. Harsh speech
7. Gossip
MIND
8. Covetousness
9. Ill-will
10. Wrong views

Question 3

3. Consciousness

Answer 3

The arising of mind through karmic imprints

Question 4

4. Name and Form

Answer 4

The coming together of the five aggregates

The 4 skandhas form, sensation, perception, formation, which are conceptually labelled rather than directly perceived.

Question 5

5. Six Āyatanas

Answer 5

Windows for the spreading of consciousness

Question 6

6. Contact

Answer 6

The meeting of sense faculty, object, and consciousness.

Mental directiveness

18 dhātus come in play here

Question 7

7. Sensation

Answer 7

The experience of contact

resulting in satisfaction, dissatisfaction or yearning, and neutral.
Aka pleasure, suffering, equanimity

Question 8

8. Craving

Answer 8

Attachment to sensations

Wish to gain or avoid, hold onto or lose

Crave desire, existence, momentary craving

Question 9

9. Acceptance

Answer 9

Undertaking activities to attain the object of grasping.

Equivalent: undertaking

Question 10

10. Becoming

Answer 10

The subsequent existence resulting from acceptance.

Aka existence, possibility

What one accomplished from undertaking (acceptance)

Question 11

11. Birth

Answer 11

The ripening of becoming

This is conception in womb

Question 12

12. Aging and Death

Answer 12

Ripening and destruction of the aggregates.

Instant by instant transformation beginning the moment after conception.