Transcendence from Ignorance to NibbAna!
Buddha once explained the entire chain of causes
leading to
Nibbāna:
Ignorance is the proximate cause of
mental construction.
Mental construction is the proximate cause of consciousness.
Consciousness is the proximate cause of name-&-form.
Name-&-form is the proximate cause of the 6 senses.
The 6 senses is the proximate cause of contact.
Contact is the proximate cause of feeling.
Feeling is the proximate cause of craving.
Craving is the proximate cause of clinging.
Clinging is the proximate cause of becoming.
Becoming is the proximate cause of birth.
Birth is the proximate cause of ageing, decay
and death.
Ageing, decay and death is the proximate cause suffering.
Suffering is the proximate cause of faith.
Faith is the proximate cause of elation.
Elation is the proximate cause of joy.
Joy is the proximate cause of calmness.
Calmness is the proximate cause of happiness.
Happiness is the proximate cause of concentration.
Concentration is the proximate cause of seeing
and knowing reality.
Seeing and knowing reality is the proximate cause of disgust.
Disgust is the proximate cause of disillusion.
Disillusion is the proximate cause of mental release.
Mental release is the proximate cause of ending all mental
fermentation
linked with ignorance, associated with becoming, and caused by sensing.
Ending all mental
fermentation is the proximate cause of Freedom..
Ending all mental
fermentation
is the proximate cause of Peace..
Ending all mental
fermentation
is the proximate cause of Bliss..
This - only this - is
Nibbāna ...
The
Butterfly Effect =>
A Storm! 1 Cause => Many Effects!
More on this uncreated state -
Nibbāna (Sanskrit = Nirvana):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2_Nibbanas.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Nibbana.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Nibbana_or_non-return.htm
Multi-factorial are Phenomena:
Caused by many factors...
More on Dependent Origination
(Paticca-Samuppāda):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Evident_Facts.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Crucial_Necessity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Elemental_Analysis.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Profound_Causality.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dependent_Causation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dependent_Origination.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dependent_Origination.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/No-Agent_but_Dependence.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Past_Cause_Present_Effect.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/paticca_samuppaada.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Assured_&_Ascertained_Awakening.htm
Intentional Consciousness radiates quantum-waves of
probability...
On Causality as general principle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
Consciousness causes collapse of
the Quantum-Wave-function...
Non-local waves thereby manifest as observable 'particulates'..
