Becoming is the process of changing your Being. The dictionary defines Becoming as follows: Be•come v. Begin to be; grow to be; turn into; (of a person) qualify or be accepted as; acquire the status of: ‘she wanted to become a doctor’. The Buddha defines Becoming as follows: “Kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings… is tuned to a lower quality… to a middling property… to a refined property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. This is how there is becoming.” 
— Bhava Sutta (AN 3.76)

1. BEING INTEGRITY 5:TRANSFORMATION
The Process of Becoming
THE ESOTERICTEACHING

2. WHAT IS BECOMING?
Becoming is the process of
changing your Being.
The dictionary defines
Becoming as follows:
Be•come v. Begin to be;
grow to be; turn into; (of a
person) qualify or be accepted
as; acquire the status of:‘she
wanted to become a doctor’.

3. WHAT IS BECOMING?
The Buddha defines Becoming as
follows:
“Kamma is the field, consciousness
the seed, craving the moisture.The
consciousness of living beings… is
tuned to a lower quality… to a
middling property… to a refined
property.Thus there is the
production of renewed becoming
in the future.This is how there is
becoming.”
— Bhava Sutta (AN 3.76)

4. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
1st & 2nd
Noble Truths:
Suffering &
its Origin
Ignorance
Suffering
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death
Nibanna
Integrity
Cessation
Deliverance
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment
Unbinding
3rd & 4th
Noble Truths:
Cessation of
Suffering &
Noble Eightfold
Path

5. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
Ignorance
Suffering
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death
Nibanna
Integrity
Cessation
Deliverance
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment
Unbinding
Becoming:
Dependent
Origination
The end of
Becoming:
The Noble
Eightfold
Path

6. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
For applications like Ontological
Education, Integrity and Leadership,
we are especially interested in this
part of the process.
We can call this
The Process of Becoming.
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth

7. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
Definitions
—from—
The Paticca-samuppada-
vibhanga Sutta (SN 12.2)

8. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is ignorance?
Not knowing stress,
not knowing the origination of
stress, not knowing the cessation
of stress,
not knowing the way of practice
leading to the cessation of stress.
This is called ignorance.
Ignorance

9. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what are fabrications?
These three are fabrications:
bodily fabrications, verbal
fabrications, mental fabrications.
These are called fabrications.
Ignorance
Fabrication

10. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is consciousness?
These six are classes of
consciousness:
eye-consciousness, ear-
consciousness,
nose-consciousness, tongue-
consciousness, body-consciousness,
mind-consciousness.
This is called consciousness.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness

11. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is name-and-form?
Feelings, perception, intention,
contact and attention: This is
called name.
The four great elements, and the
form dependent on the four great
elements: This is called form.
This name and this form are called
name-and-form.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form

12. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what are the six sense media?
These six are sense media:
the eye-medium, the ear-medium,
the nose-medium, the tongue-
medium, the body-medium, the
mind-medium.
These are called the six sense
media.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Six Senses

13. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is contact?
These six are classes of contact:
eye-contact, ear-contact,
nose-contact, tongue-contact,
body-contact, mind-contact.
This is called contact.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Six Senses

14. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is feelings?
These six are classes of feelings:
feelings born from eye-contact,
feelings born from ear-contact,
feelings born from nose-contact,
feelings born from tongue-contact,
feelings born from body-contact,
feelings born from mind-contact.
This is called feelings.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Six Senses

15. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is craving?
These six are classes of craving:
craving for forms, craving for
sounds, craving for smells, craving
for tastes, craving for sensations,
craving for ideas.
This is called craving.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Six Senses

16. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is clinging?
These four are clingings:
sensuality-clinging, view-clinging,
precept-and-practice-clinging, and
doctrine-of-self-clinging.
This is called clinging.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses

17. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is becoming?
These three are becomings:
sensual becoming,
form becoming and
formless becoming.
This is called becoming.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming

18. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
And what is birth?
Whatever birth, taking birth,
descent, coming-to-be, coming-
forth, appearance of aggregates
and acquisition of sense media of
the various beings in this or that
group of beings,
that is called birth.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth

19. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
Now what is aging and death?
Whatever aging, decrepitude,
brokenness, graying, wrinkling, decline
of life-force, weakening of the faculties of
the various beings in this or that group
of beings, that is called aging.
Whatever deceasing, passing away,
breaking up, disappearance, dying,
death, completion of time, break up of
the aggregates, casting off of the body,
interruption in the life faculty of the
various beings in this or that group of
beings,
that is called death.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death

20. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From birth as a requisite
condition, then aging and
death, sorrow, lamentation,
pain, distress and despair
come into play.
Such is the origination of this
entire mass of stress and
suffering.
Ignorance
Suffering
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death

21. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
Dependent
Origination
—from—
The Paticca-samuppada-
vibhanga Sutta (SN 12.2)
Ignorance
Suffering
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death

22. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support, Ignorance

23. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
Ignorance
Fabrication

24. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
Ignorance
Fabrication

25. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness

26. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness

27. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support, name-and-form develop.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form

28. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support, name-and-form develop.
From name-and-form as a requisite
support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form

29. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support, name-and-form develop.
From name-and-form as a requisite
support, the six sense media develop.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Six Senses

30. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support, name-and-form develop.
From name-and-form as a requisite
support, the six sense media develop.
From the six sense media as a requisite
support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Six Senses

31. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support, name-and-form develop.
From name-and-form as a requisite
support, the six sense media develop.
From the six sense media as a requisite
support, contact develops.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Six Senses

32. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support, name-and-form develop.
From name-and-form as a requisite
support, the six sense media develop.
From the six sense media as a requisite
support, contact develops.
From contact as a requisite support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Six Senses

33. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From ignorance as a requisite support,
fabrications develop.
From fabrications as a requisite support,
consciousness develops.
From consciousness as a requisite
support, name-and-form develop.
From name-and-form as a requisite
support, the six sense media develop.
From the six sense media as a requisite
support, contact develops.
From contact as a requisite support,
feelings develop.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Six Senses

34. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Six Senses

35. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Six Senses

36. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Six Senses

37. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
clinging develops.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses

38. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
clinging develops.
From clinging as a requisite
support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses

39. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
clinging develops.
From clinging as a requisite
support, becoming develops.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming

40. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
clinging develops.
From clinging as a requisite
support, becoming develops.
From becoming as a requisite
support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming

41. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
clinging develops.
From clinging as a requisite
support, becoming develops.
From becoming as a requisite
support, birth develops.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth

42. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
clinging develops.
From clinging as a requisite
support, becoming develops.
From becoming as a requisite
support, birth develops.
From birth as a requisite support,
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth

43. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From feelings as a requisite
support, craving develops.
From craving as a requisite
support,
clinging develops.
From clinging as a requisite
support, becoming develops.
From becoming as a requisite
support, birth develops.
From birth as a requisite support,
aging and death, sorrow,
lamentation, pain, distress and
despair arise together.
Ignorance
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death

44. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
Aging and death, sorrow,
lamentation, pain, distress
and despair arise together.
This indeed is the origin of
the entire mass of stress and
suffering.
Ignorance
Suffering
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death

45. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
Suffering
Fabrication
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity

46. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
Suffering
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity

47. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
Suffering
Consciousness
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Contentment

48. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
Suffering
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Contentment

49. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
Suffering
Name & Form
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Rapture
Contentment

50. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
cessation of name-and-form occurs.
Suffering
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Rapture
Contentment

51. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
cessation of name-and-form occurs.
From cessation of name-and-form,
Suffering
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Six Senses
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

52. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
cessation of name-and-form occurs.
From cessation of name-and-form,
cessation of the six sense media
occurs.
Suffering
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

53. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
cessation of name-and-form occurs.
From cessation of name-and-form,
cessation of the six sense media
occurs.
From cessation of the six sense media,
Suffering
Contact
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Bliss
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

54. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
cessation of name-and-form occurs.
From cessation of name-and-form,
cessation of the six sense media
occurs.
From cessation of the six sense media,
cessation of contact occurs.
Suffering
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Bliss
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

55. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
cessation of name-and-form occurs.
From cessation of name-and-form,
cessation of the six sense media
occurs.
From cessation of the six sense media,
cessation of contact occurs.
From cessation of contact,
Suffering
Feelings
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

56. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
However, from the cessation of
ignorance,
cessation of fabrications occurs.
From cessation of fabrications,
cessation of consciousness occurs.
From cessation of consciousness,
cessation of name-and-form occurs.
From cessation of name-and-form,
cessation of the six sense media
occurs.
From cessation of the six sense media,
cessation of contact occurs.
From cessation of contact,
cessation of feelings occurs.
Suffering
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

57. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
Suffering
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

58. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
Suffering
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Rapture
Contentment

59. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
Suffering
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

60. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
cessation of clinging occurs.
Suffering
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

61. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
cessation of clinging occurs.
From cessation of clinging,
Suffering
Becoming
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

62. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
cessation of clinging occurs.
From cessation of clinging,
cessation of becoming occurs.
Suffering
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

63. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
cessation of clinging occurs.
From cessation of clinging,
cessation of becoming occurs.
From cessation of becoming,
Suffering
Birth
Aging & Death Integrity
Deliverance
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

64. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
cessation of clinging occurs.
From cessation of clinging,
cessation of becoming occurs.
From cessation of becoming,
cessation of birth occurs.
Suffering
Aging & Death Integrity
Deliverance
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

65. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
cessation of clinging occurs.
From cessation of clinging,
cessation of becoming occurs.
From cessation of becoming,
cessation of birth occurs.
From cessation of birth,
Suffering
Aging & Death Integrity
Cessation
Deliverance
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

66. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of feelings,
cessation of craving occurs.
From cessation of craving,
cessation of clinging occurs.
From cessation of clinging,
cessation of becoming occurs.
From cessation of becoming,
cessation of birth occurs.
From cessation of birth,
then aging and death, sorrow,
lamentation, pain, distress and despair
all cease.
Suffering
Integrity
Cessation
Deliverance
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment

67. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
From cessation of birth,
then aging and death, sorrow,
lamentation, pain, distress and
despair all cease. This indeed
is cessation of the entire mass
of stress and suffering.
Nibanna
Integrity
Cessation
Deliverance
Dispassion
Wisdom Sight
Samadhi
Bliss
Calmness
Disenchantment
Rapture
Contentment
Unbinding