The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

w 22Origination the round of kamma refers to kamma formations andkammabhava, the round of defilements refers to ignorance, cravingand clinging, and the round of results refers to consciousness, mindand matter, the six sense bases, contact, and feeling.For example, in the case of making an offering of candles,flowers, or incense in front of a Buddha image and making a wishto be reborn as a monk.Then in this case ignorance is the wrong knowledge thinkingthat "monk" is a reality, craving is the desire, and longing for a lifeas a monk, and clinging is the attachment to a life as a monk. Thesethree: ignorance, craving, and attachment are all found together inthe consciousness that makes up the round of defilements (kilesavatta).If the meditator made an offering of candles, flowers, or incensein front of a Buddha image and instead of making a wish to bereborn as a monk, had made a wish to be reborn as a woman.Then in that case the ignorance is the wrong knowledge thinkingthat "woman" is a reality, craving is the desire, and longing for alife as a woman and clinging is the attachment to a life as a woman.In both of these examples kamma formations (saºkhŒrŒ) are thewholesome intentions of offering of either candles, flowers, orincense in front of a Buddha image and kamma is the kammicforce associated with the kamma formations. These two are bothfound in the consciousnesses that make up the kamma round(kamma vatta) of Dependent Origination.When the meditator is able to discern the mentality and matterof the defilement round and the kamma round in the recent pastthen he goes back in time a little further, to sometime previous tothat offering and discerns the mentality and matter present at thattime in the same way. Then after having discerned the mentality