Paticcasamuppāda - Dependent Origination

Paticcasamuppāda - Dependent Origination

When this is, that is.
From the arising of this comes the arising of that.
When this isn't, that isn't.
From the cessation of this comes the cessation of that.

Every phenomena has 3 parts, the beginning, the middle and the ending. The ending of this phenomena is in turn the beginning of another. Every phenomena has a cause which progressed into an effect and that effect in turn becomes a cause of another phenomena.

Every single phenomena can only exist the way it is now because all other phenomena exist the way exactly the way they were, are and will be. Such is the interdependency nature of all, for one cannot truly exist the way they simply are without the rest doing so.

Contemplate about how we exist in this very moment, can we exist in this manner if all events did not occur the way they are? How did we come into being? We cannot exist without our parents meeting each other and our parents in turn cannot exist without their parents meeting and this cannot be made possible if Earth is not suitable for life.

Imagine Edison did not invent light bulb. Imagine Wright Brothers did not invent the first airplane. Imagine if televisions were not invented. Imagine languages and literacy did not evolve they way they did till they are today. What will the world be like? Will we still be the very same person we are here and now? That is interdependency, we cannot exist the way we know we are without the rest of the phenomena existing the way they are in the past, present and future.