BUD510 MW2 Modes/Mental Events Ch 8 Nidanas/12 Links of Interdependence II

Question 1

Ignorance

Answer 1

A mental event that observes its own objects; it is the opposite of awareness and wisdom, and it is a condition for formation.

Ultimately, confusion about true nature of phenomena. Failing to see reality, the three marks of existence: impermanence, identitylessness, dissatisfaction.
Conventionally, not seeing interdependent origination, and karmaphala.

Afflicted obscuration/distorting of suchness giving impression of I, like a whirling back-eddy.

A bling grandmother with a cane hobbling down a mountain road

Question 2

Mental Formation

Answer 2

A contaminated karma that propels one into subsequent existences, and it is a condition for consciousness.

A potter at his wheel

Question 3

Consciousness

Answer 3

That which holds karmic habitual tendencies and leads one to a place of birth that accords with the seeds planted.
A monkey climbing a tree and grabbing at fruit

Question 4

Names and Form

Answer 4

नाम रूप nāma rūpa
That which arise due to the condition of consciousness and are established in the second moment of conception.

A boatman carrying passengers in his boat

Question 5

Six Āyatanas

Answer 5

That which arise due to the conditions of name and firm and are the aggregates that come out first due to the ripening of name and form.

A six windowed house

Question 6

Contact

Answer 6

That which arises due to the conditions of the six āyatanas and distinguishes objects through the coming together of object, faculty and consciousness (dhātus)

A married couple embracing

Question 7

Feeling

Answer 7

A mental event that experiences a completely ripened result due to the condition of contact.

An arrow in the eye

Question 8

Craving

Answer 8

तृय्णा tṛṣṇa སྲེད་པ་ sred pa
That which arises due to the condition of feelings and is a particular form of desire associated with pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feelings.

A fat man gulping down a sweet drink of milk and honey

Question 9

Grasping

Answer 9

उपादान upādāna ལེན་པ་ len pa
That which arises due to the condition of craving and is an ad;etc of desire that as;ire’s you seek out the causes of pleasant or unpleasant feelings.

A man eating a fruit from a tree and gathering more to take with him

Question 10

Becoming

Answer 10

भव bhava
That which arises due to the two conditions of craving and grasping and is the karma that produces subsequent existences, or the mental event that newly accumulates projecting karma.

A pregnant woman about to give birth

Question 11

Birth

Answer 11

जाति jāti
The stage during which the skandhas are gradually developed externally subsequent to entering the womb of the mother. Alternatively, birth is that which comes about due to the power of becoming meeting with the condition of consciousness.

A woman giving birth

Question 12

Aging

Answer 12

जरा मरण jarā-maraṇa
The full maturation or ripening of the skandhas, and death is the cessation or disintegration of the continuum of those skandhas.

A man carrying a corpse on his back, on his way to the charnel grounds.