1st Week After Enlightenment - Under the Bodhi Tree
During the first week after enlightenment, the Buddha sat under the bodhi tree experiencing the happiness of freedom and peace.
The Paticca-Samuppada explains the conditional and dependent nature of the uninterrupted flux of the manifold mental and physical phenomena of existence
Paticca = ‘dependent upon’ Samuppada = ‘arising’ or ‘origination
The method of the Paticca-Samuppada should be understood as follows:
Dependent on ‘A’ arises ‘B’. Dependent on ‘B’ arises ‘C’. When there is no ‘A’, there is no ‘B’. When there is no ‘B’, there is no ‘C’.