支配今生来世的力量

Present life   Consciousness, name and form, the six sense bases, contact and feeling belong to this phase.

（2）现世阶段。第一个是识缘起支，第二个是名色缘起支，第三个是入缘起支，第四个是触缘起支，第五个是受缘起支。这五支是属于现世阶段的。

In addition, there are craving - the desire of ordinary beings, grasping - the deeds performed to satisfy craving, and becoming - the cause of samsara, that is, positive and negative karma, with the three kinds of existence (desire，form and formlessness) the effect of karma. Although these three are assigned to the present life, they are the causes of the future life. Altogether eight states, the previous five plus these three, are in the phase of present life.

然后再加上爱缘起支，爱就是凡夫的贪欲；取缘起支，取就是为了满足贪欲而作的行为；有缘起支，有就是轮回的因，即善恶之业， 三界、三有是同一个意思， 是它的果。 这三支虽然属于现世，却是后世的因。前面的五支，再加上这三支，一共八支，都属于现世阶段。

Future life   There are only birth and old age/death in this phase. Old age and death are combined into one because some people get old before they die and others may die before they get old. It is hard to tell which comes first and hence the arrangement.

（3）来世阶段。下一世只有两个缘起支，第一个是生缘起支，第二个是老死缘起支，老和死不分开合为一支。为什么其他都是分开的，只有这两个不分开呢？那是因为有些人是老了以后才死，也有些人尚未老就死了，究竟是先老抑或先死，这是谁也说不清楚的，所以把这两个放在一起。

In total, twelve linking states are divided into three phases.

以上一共十二支，分成三个阶段。