user11541: Is there any dependency on thought for the existence of life ? (Dependency without which life would not come into existence.)
Another related question : Does craving for thought lead to craving for existence ?

user13375: Thoughts exist and lives exist and sentient beings exist. These phenomena are mutually dependent and a first cause cannot be found. This whole phenomenal world is bound up with infinite sets of mutually dependent causes and conditions that are utterly suffused with relative and co-dependent existence. It is not the case that:

"In the beginning, a thought came into existence and dependent upon
  that life came into existence."

This is not how it is! No beginning can be found or ascertained. 
If one looks at "thought" it can be known that "thought" cannot be contemplated without first depending upon "life" and "life" cannot be thought of without first depending upon "thought." They are mutually dependent and along with them whole infinite sets of relative causes and conditions that together conjure up this phenomenal world.

11541: <p>Is there any dependency on thought for the existence of life ? (Dependency without which life would not come into existence.)</p>

<p>Another related question : Does craving for thought lead to craving for existence ?</p>
 13375: <p>Thoughts exist and lives exist and sentient beings exist. These phenomena are <em>mutually dependent</em> and a first cause cannot be found. This whole phenomenal world is bound up with infinite sets of <em>mutually dependent</em> causes and conditions that are utterly suffused with relative and co-dependent existence. It is not the case that:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>"In the beginning, a thought came into existence and dependent upon
  that life came into existence."</p>
</blockquote>

<p>This is not how it is! No beginning can be found or ascertained. </p>

<p>If one looks at "thought" it can be known that "thought" cannot be contemplated without first depending upon "life" and "life" cannot be <em>thought</em> of without first depending upon "thought." They are mutually dependent and along with them whole infinite sets of relative causes and conditions that together conjure up this phenomenal world.</p>
