Memorize 12 Links in 4 Easy Groups of 3!

1) ignorance or unawareness

2) karmic formations

3) consciousness

4) name and form

5) six sense gates

6) contact

7) feeling

8) craving

9) grasping

10) existence

11) life

12) aging and dying

If you can remember your phone number, your debit card pin, and your email password, you can memorize these. Learning how this works is indispensable for understanding how we plant and harvest causes and results and thus stay in or leave samsara. It's stunning; when you start to get it you are forcefully struck by the insidiousness of conditioned existence aka samsara. See also http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/x/nav/group.html_1253243166.html for more on the how the different Buddhist tenet systems describe how the 12 links work.