[Buddha-l] Dependent arising variants

[Mike Austin]

In message <1138921060.9339.54.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Richard P. 
Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> writes
>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 02:37 +0000, Mike Austin wrote:
>
>> I am having a bit of trouble following this.
>
>His argument was that each dharma
>perishes for no other reason than that it arose from conditions. When
>the conditions cease or change configuration, the dharma disappears.

Yes. No external agent is required to bring about the end of a 'dharma'.

>The reasoning that applies to dharmas would not necessarily apply to
>complex objects

Yes. That is what I was getting at.

>Does that clarify the issue or only make it more confusing?

Yes.

So is birth sufficient for death? Only if we extend our meaning of the 
word 'birth' to include conditioning factors that link it to death.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin