[Nopayof]

1) Ignorance: not seeing things in terms of the four noble truths of stress, its
origination, its cessation, and the path to its cessation.

2) Fabrication: the process of intentionally shaping states of body and mind.
These processes are of three sorts:

a) bodily fabrication: the in-and-out breath,
b) verbal fabrication: directed thought and evaluation, and
c) mental fabrication: feeling (feeling tones of pleasure, pain, or neither
pleasure nor pain) and perception (the mental labels applied to the
objects of the senses for the purpose of memory and recognition).

3) Consciousness at the six sense media: the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and
intellect.

4) Name-and-form: mental and physical phenomena. Mental phenomena
include:

a) feeling,
b) perception,
c) intention,
d) contact, and
e) attention.

Physical phenomena include the four great elements—the properties
constituting the kinetic sense of the body—and any physical phenomenon derived
from them:

f) earth (solidity),
g) water (liquidity),
h) wind (energy and motion), and
i) fire (warmth).

5) The six internal sense media: the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and intellect.

6) Contact at the six sense media. Contact happens when a sense organ meets
with a sense object—for example, the eye meets with a form—conditioning an act
of consciousness at that sense organ. The meeting of all three—the sense organ, the
object, and the act of consciousness—counts as contact.

7) Feeling based on contact at the six sense media.

8 ) Craving for the objects of the six sense media. This craving can focus on any
of the six sense media, and can take any of three forms:

a) sensuality-craving (craving for sensual plans and resolves),
b) becoming-craving (craving to assume an identity in a world of
experience), and
c) non-becoming-craving (craving for the end of an identity in a world of
experience).

9) Clinging—passion and delight—focused on the five aggregates of form,
feeling, perception, fabrication, and consciousness. This clinging can take any of
four forms:

a) sensuality-clinging,
b) view-clinging,
c) habit-and-practice-clinging, and
d) doctrine-of-self-clinging.

10) Becoming on any of three levels:

a) the level of sensuality,
b) the level of form, and
c) the level of formlessness.

11) Birth: the actual assumption of an identity on any of these three levels.

12) The aging-and-death of that identity, with its attendant sorrow, lamentation,
pain, distress and despair.