sn12.1:2.1 “And what is dependent origination?
sn12.1:2.2 Ignorance is a requirement for choices.
sn12.1:2.3 Choices are a requirement for consciousness.
sn12.1:2.4 Consciousness is a requirement for name and form.
sn12.1:2.5 Name and form are requirements for the six sense fields.
sn12.1:2.6 The six sense fields are requirements for contact.
sn12.1:2.7 Contact is a requirement for feeling.
sn12.1:2.8 Feeling is a requirement for craving.
sn12.1:2.9 Craving is a requirement for grasping.
sn12.1:2.10 Grasping is a requirement for continued existence.
sn12.1:2.11 Continued existence is a requirement for rebirth.
sn12.1:2.12 Rebirth is a requirement for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come to be.
sn12.1:2.13 That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.
sn12.1:2.14 This is called dependent origination.