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When ignorance is eliminated, the conditioned phenomena that arise from ignorance also cease. With the cessation of conditioned phenomena, consciousness ceases. The cessation of consciousness leads to the cessation of mental and physical phenomena. This chain continues until the cessation of birth, aging, death, and all forms of suffering.

> Therefore, the cessation of suffering is contingent upon the cessation of ignorance.