Paticcasamupadda
Main teaching = truth or nature of the world (samsara)
Causes and effects dictate existence of beings
When this is, this is.
From the emergence of this, this emerges.
When this is not, this is not.
From the cessation of this, this ceases.
12 Factors of Samsara
Ignorance (Avijjā) leads to or conditions mental formations (Samkhāra)
Mental formations (Samkhāra) lead to or condition consciousness (Viññāņa)
Consciousness (Viññāņa) leads to or conditions name and form (Nāma-rūpa)
Name and form (Nāma-rūpa) lead to or condition six faculties (Salāyatana).
Six faculties (Salāyatana) lead to or condition contact (Phassa).
Contact (Phassa) leads to or conditions feeling (Vedanā)
Feeling (Vedanā) leads to or conditions craving (Tanhā)
Craving (Tanhā) leads to or conditions grasping (Upādāna)
Grasping (Upādāna) leads to or conditions existence (Bhava)
Existence (Bhava) leads to or conditions birth (Jāti)
Birth (Jāti) leads to or conditions decay, death, grief, lamentation, pain, unpleasantness,
and distress (Jarā-maraņa-soka-parideva-dukkha-domanassa-upāyāsa).
Four Noble Truths
Noble Truth of Suffering
Five aggregates of grasping: forms (physical aspect - Rūpa), feelings (Vedanā), perceptions (Saññā), mental formations (Samkhāra), and consciousness (Viññāna)
Sankhāra: what is produced causally or conditionally
impermanence or change (Anicca), suffering (Dukkha) and non-ego (Anatta)
Noble Truth of Emergence of Suffering
Starts with craving or clinging (Tanhā)
"Through craving (Tanhā) is conditioned grasping (Bhava); through grasping is conditioned becoming; through becoming is conditioned birth (Jāti)."
Noble Truth of Cessation of Suffering
Ariyapariyesana sutta describes it as ‘calming of all volitional formations, giving up all defilements, extinction of craving, detachment, cessation, nibbāna’
Also known as Nibbana
Noble Truth of Path Leading to the Cessation of Suffering
Middle Path
Noble Eightfold Path
Right Understanding or right vision (sammā titthi)
Right Thought or right aspiration (sammā sankappa)
Right Speech (sammā vācā)
Right Action (sammā kammanta)
Right Livelyhood (sammā Ajiva)
Right Effort (sammā vāyāma)
Right Mindfulness (sammā sati)
Right Concentration (sammā Samādhi
3 Disciplines within the path: Ethical conduct (sila), Mental concentration (Samadhi), Wisdom (panna)