Law of Dependent Origination (Profound Version)

Buddhitakso

So far, all the available texts or sutras on the Buddha’s teachings have pointed out ignorance as the first link or cause in the wheel of life. However, if one was to observe this aspect of ignorance intently, it simply could not arise out of nowhere or out of thin air. Definitely, it has to arise out of memorised events that have taken place beforehand.

In psychology, memory is defined as an organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences. So, when aggregate activities began, some sort of information would be produced, stored and recalled in the integrated elements.  In a layman term, this process is called creation or pro-creation within beings or things. If memory aggregate is absent, the process of replication could not arise in all beings or things at all. Let us illustrate in the learning of speeches among young children. If a child has no memory ability, then whatever lessons that were taught on would instantly be forgotten or erased and the progression to the next advance level would be deemed impossible.

Similarly, it was the Buddha’s recommendation for one to always see and live in the present; neither in the past nor in the future. When one lives well in the present, one would lead to the cessation of memories of the past and this would subsequently lead to the cessation of ignorance in the future.

The principle in effect: -

The seeing of Ultimate Truth leads to the cessation of balance phenomenon;

The cessation of balance phenomenon leads to the cessation of aggregate activity;

The cessation of aggregate activity leads to cessation of information;

The cessation of information leads to cessation of memory;

The cessation of memory leads to the cessation of ignorance;

The cessation of ignorance leads to the cessation of volitional impulse;

The cessation of volitional impulse leads to the cessation of consciousness;

The cessation of consciousness leads to the cessation of body and mind;

The cessation of body and mind lead to the cessation of six sense bases;

The cessation of six sense bases lead to the cessation of contact;

The cessation of contact leads to the cessation of feeling;

The cessation of feeling leads to the cessation of craving;

The cessation of craving leads to the cessation of clinging;

The cessation of clinging leads to the cessation of becoming;

The cessation of becoming leads to the cessation of birth;

The cessation of birth leads to the cessation of aging;

The cessation of aging leads to the cessation of death;

The cessation of death leads to the cessation of segregate activity;

The cessation of segregate activity leads to the cessation of imbalance phenomenon;

The cessation of imbalance phenomenon leads to the cessation of conditional phenomenon;

The cessation of conditional phenomenon leads to the cessation of time;

The cessation of time leads to unconditional freedom of basic elements - energy, matter and space.

Ultimately, pure energy, matter, and space elements would sustain in permanency with absence of time – this is the ambience of Nibbana.