4.B.2.B.2.a. Thinking about the Causes of Suffering and How They Place and Keep Us in Cyclic Existence
[Teachings]

1. How the afflictions develop
   1. Recognizing the afflictions
      1. Root afflictions
         1. Attachment
         2. Anger, aversion
         3. Pride
         4. Ignorance
         5. Defiled doubt
         6. Afflicted views:
            1. View of the transitory collection
            2. View holding to an extreme
            3. Conception of an incorrect view as supreme
            4. Conception of improper ethics and conduct as supreme
               
            5. Incorrect views
      2. Secondary afflictions
   2. Order development of the afflictions
   3. Causes for the arisal of the afflictions
      1. Dependent basis: the seed of the afflictions
      2. Object stimulating them to arise
      3. Detrimental influences: wrong friends
      4. Verbal stimuli
      5. Habit
      6. Inappropriate decisive attention
   4. Disadvantages of the afflictions
      
      
2. How karma is accumulated by the afflictions
   1. Karma accumulated through mental actions
   2. Karma accumulated which is derived from mental actions
      
      
3. The way of leaving the body in death and taking rebirth
   1. Way death occurs
   2. Way bardo is reached after death
   3. Way connection is made to next life.

(The 12 links of dependent arising can be explained here.)