Кира против пратитья-самутпады

Некогда в Индии, в Магадхе, правил царь Бимбисара. ...

303. 4. [As to similes:] ignorance is like a blind man because there is no seeing
states according to their specific and general characteristics; formations with
ignorance as condition are like the blind man’s stumbling; consciousness with
formations as condition is like the stumbler’s falling; mentality-materiality with
consciousness as condition is like the appearance of a tumour on the fallen
man; the sixfold base with mentality-materiality as condition is like a gathering
that makes the tumour burst; contact with the sixfold base as condition is like
hitting the gathering in the tumour; feeling with contact as condition is like the
pain due to the blow; craving with feeling as condition is like longing for a
remedy; clinging with craving as condition is like seizing what is unsuitable
through longing for a remedy; [583] becoming with clinging as condition is
like applying the unsuitable remedy seized; birth with becoming as condition is
like the appearance of a change [for the worse] in the tumour owing to the
application of the unsuitable remedy; and ageing-and-death with birth as
condition is like the bursting of the tumour after the change.

На шестом рисунке изображено соитие мужчины и женщины. Так символизируется шестое звено двенадцатичленной формулы, соприкосновение. Это состояние, в котором сознание уже функционирует, оно только-только начинает "проявляться" в теле и органах чувств. И как только это происходит, сознание как бы встречается с объектами. У человека появляется сознание видимого, слышимого и т.д. и он получает возможность различать качества объектов, но при этом не испытывает ни страданий, ни блаженства.