Ⅱ CAUSATION
1. There are causes for all human suffering, and there is a way
by which they may be ended, because everything in the world is the
result of a vast concurrence of causes and conditions, and everything
disappears as these causes and conditions change and pass away.
Rain falls, winds blow, plants bloom, leaves, mature and are
blown away; these phenomeana are a;; omterrelated with causes and
conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes
and conditions change.
One is born through the conditions of parentage; his body is
nourished by food, his spirit is nurtured by tdaching and experience.
Therefore, both flesh and spirit are related to conditions and are
changed sa conditions chage.
As a net is made up by a series of ties, so everthing in this
word is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thins that the mesh
of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistake.
It is called a net because it is made up of a series of connected
meshes, and each mesh has its place and responsibilities in relation to
other meshes.
2. Blossoms come about because of a series of conditions that
lead up to their blooming; leaves are blown away because a series of
conditions lead up to it. Blossoms do not appear unconditioned nor
does a leaf falll of itself. So everything has its coming forth and
passing away; nothing can be independent without any change.
It is the everlasting and unchanging rule of this world that
everything is created by a series of causes and conditions and
everything disappears by the same rule; everything changes, nothting
remains without change.