It is interesting that Thanissaro Bhikkhu suggests that the idea of a wheel (or cycle), a common image for DO, is a simplified image that is inadequate as a depiction of the complexity of the processes leading to suffering and the undermining of that process. IIRC, this has to do with the interlocking feedback loops that he says are characteristic of non-linear systems (I'm not educated in such matters). This is from The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arisingjustindesilva wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 7:45 am ...Paticcasamupaada is conditional arising with 12 conditions one following the other moving in a cycle.
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