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[Twelve links of interdependent origination]
1. Dependent on ignorance mental formations…2. … arise.3. From mental formations, rebirth consciousness arises.4. Consciousness gives rise to mental and physical phenomena.5. From mental and physical phenomena (náma rúpa), the spheres of the six senses arise.6. From the spheres of the six senses, contact arises.7. Contact causes sensation.<— snip —>8. Sensation leads to craving.9. From craving, attachment results.10. Attachment produces becoming.11. From becoming birth arises.12. Finally, birth leads to decay, death, grief, lamentation, pain (dukkha), sorrow, despair.
In this way the whole mass of suffering arises.