Lama Zopa Rinpoche

conditioning the becoming of another human body, the tenth limb, which lead to the eleventh,
the rebirth of this life.
Nagarjuna said,
Two deluded actions [links two and ten] arise from three deluded causes [links one, eight and nine]; seven
uncontrolled results [links three, four, five, six, seven, eleven and twelve] arise from those two deluded
actions. Again three deluded causes arise from these seven results. Such a wheel of life goes round and
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So once we are reborn the other six results occur: the consciousness of this life, name and
form, the six sense organs, contact, feeling and aging and death. During this life, out of
ignorance we engage in compounding actions, leaving karmic imprints on our consciousness,
and at the end of our life, craving, grasping and becoming arise once more.
The wheel of life illustration seen at the door of many monasteries is symbolic. For instance,
for name and form, the fourth limb, a man rowing a boat is shown: name is the mind and
form is the body. After name and form come the six sense bases, depicted by an empty
house, and then, after that, comes contact, symbolized by the contact of a man and a
woman. From contact, feeling arises, shown as a man with an arrow in his eye.
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