TWELVE LINKS OF DEPENDENT ORIGINATION:

How we Remain Cycling Within Samsara Through those Twelve Links “Devoid; bearing the object of utilization that recollects The nature of the buddhas’ accumulation of merit; Together with means; signless; Rejoicing by the buddhas;” VS. 2.22 We repeatedly cycle within samsara due to karma we accumulate from the ignorance of self-grasping. The imprints of this karma are posited on our mindstream and this acts as the condition that brings about craving, taking, and existence. As coarse afflictions arise we proceed to take rebirth in a birth existence in samsara. The Buddha has taught both the way that we enter into and the way that we exit from samsara through the twelve links of dependent origination. He taught this by presenting samsara and explaining how we enter into it as well as presenting the qualities of liberation and explaining how we can exit from samsara.