No First Beginning!
Bhikkhu Samahita
Friends:
The Samsaric Cycle has No Beginning...
The Blessed Buddha once explained the
round of existence as this:
No first beginning of ignorance can be perceived, bhikkhus, before
which there was no ignorance, and after which ignorance had emerged.
Nevertheless ignorance
has its specific causal conditions:
When there is mental
fermentation, ignorance also comes into being.
When the 5
mental hindrances are present, ignorance grows & expands.
AN V
113, MN I 54
No first beginning of craving
for becoming can ever be perceived,
before which there was no craving
for becoming, and after which
craving
for becoming had emerged.
Nevertheless craving
for becoming has its specific causal condition:
When there is ignorance
of the 4 truths, craving
for becoming arises.
AN V 116
But why does the Blessed One give this exposition of the round with
those two things as starting points? Because they are the outstanding
causes of kammic action that leads to the happy and unhappy destinies!
Ignorance is prime cause of behaviour, that results in unhappy destiny.
Vism 525
Naturally: In no cyclic process can a beginning ever be
pointed out...
Why not? There is neither beginning nor end of a fully closed circle!
For explanation of this wheel of becoming click here:
http://www.vimokkha.com/paticcasamuppada.html
More on these prime causes of the round (vatta)
of being:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Causes_of_Ignorance.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vatta.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/What_is_Ignorance.htm
Have a nice day!
Friendship is
the Greatest! 
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ Sri
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No First Beginning!