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One event, action, or reaction, results in an effect and that in turn causes other events, actions, and reactions. Although all things are impermanent, all occurrences in one’s life are conditioned by others and with a turn of the "Karmic Wheel" they then in turn form conditions for other occurrences. This Law of Dependent Origination Causation or spiritual Karmic Law, Pratityasamypadha was the cornerstone for Buddha's entire system of Buddhism teachings. According to Buddha, all painful experiences that bring about suffering in our lives, such as birth, illness, death, sadness, depression, despair, grief, unfulfilled desires, yearnings, cravings, and contact with unpleasant things, arise from the treadmill cycles of karma and rebirth. The causation of these painful karmic cycles originate with our lusty attempts to fulfill our cravings, pleasure seeking activities, and lusty attempts to fulfill our desires. Therefore, the way to stop this unremitting pain and suffering was to eliminate these cravings, yearnings, and desires through a conscious relinquishment of them or deliberate non-attachment, forsaking, release, and abandonment. During his "Discourse on Casual Relations", Gautama Buddha discussed the "Four Characteristics of Causation". They were objectivity, necessity, invariability and conditionality. In order to get off the "Karmic Wheel" one had to initiate potent moral Right Action in any moment of time so that one's skandhas would be properly configured. A person consisted of five skandhas. They were a bodily form, feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness. At any given moment in time, one was an amalgam of these five groups.
Any future blended patterns
were the result of prior causations. Moral actions, "Right Actions", resulted in
more propitious circumstances while wrongful acts led to unfortunate conditions.
This causal linkage continued from lifetime to lifetime until Nirvana liberated
the Buddhist from the karmic cycles of rebirth.
According to Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, "Cessation of Suffering" was the way to stop this unremitting pain in one's daily life, by eliminating these cravings, yearnings, and desires through a conscious relinquishment of them or deliberate non-attachment, forsaking, release, and abandonment. All constituents of Being then are painful until the Buddhist raises personal consciousness above suffering to a higher, more peaceful Buddhic state of Being which has been called by many "Enlightenment". In order to reach this state, Buddha taught that one must detach, let go of fleeting pleasures, personal property, emotional attachments, cords, and chords that generate memories of intense emotions, since all constituents of Being are lacking in Ego. Gautama Buddha pointed out the difference between the soul or spiritual Self and the personality, the personal self’s dharmic dance during a particular lifetime. The upward growth spiral "Path of Wisdom" for the "Spiritual Self" led the Buddhist aspirant to cultivate the "Morality" of "Right Action". Enlightenment and peace resulted from training and study of this path of upward spiral movement. Aspirants began with a small spark of Wisdom which inspired them to moral Right Action and Contemplative Meditation which expanded the Wisdom which bolstered the Morality behind Right Actions and this then led to higher levels of contemplative Right Action and so on.
Morality encompasses Right
Actions like abstinence from debauchery, deceit, infidelity, intoxicants,
killing, and theft. To promote a happy harmonious life for both the individual and society and to build a foundation for higher states
of consciousness, Buddhists must perform only moral Right Actions.
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