Lets use the example of conditional love to illustrate the Twelve Nidanas of dependent origination.
1. Ignorance (avijja): The individual lacks understanding of the true nature of love, which is unconditional and free from attachments and expectations.
2. Mental formations (sankhara): Due to ignorance, the individual has formed patterns of love that are based on conditions and expectations, often leading to attachment and suffering.
3. Consciousness (viññana): The individuals consciousness is conditioned by these mental formations, making them prone to experiencing conditional love.
4. Name and form (nama-rupa): The individuals body and mind (psychophysical constituents) manifest in a way that is susceptible to experiencing conditional love.
5. The six sense bases (salayatana): The individuals sense organs (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mind) interact with the external world.
6. Contact (phassa): The individual encounters situations, events, or people that meet their expectations or triggers their conditions for love.
7. Feeling (vedana): The individual experiences a pleasant feeling as a result of contact with the object of their conditional love, reinforcing their attachment to it.
8. Craving (tanha): The individual develops an attachment to the object of their love and craves more of it.
9. Clinging (upadana): The individuals attachment to their conditional love intensifies, perpetuating the cycle of craving and clinging.
10. Becoming (bhava): This clinging to conditional love reinforces the individuals habitual patterns and karmic tendencies, perpetuating the cycle of love based on conditions and expectations.
11. Birth (jati): The individuals conditional love manifests in the form of excessive attachment, possessiveness, jealousy, or controlling behaviors.
12. Old age and death (jara-marana): The individuals conditional love, if left unaddressed, can lead to physical, mental, and emotional suffering and perpetuate negative consequences in future relationships or even future lives.
In this example, we can see how the Twelve Nidanas apply to the arising and perpetuation of conditional love. By understanding the dependent origination of love and recognizing the interdependence of the Twelve Links, a person can cultivate mindfulness and work towards breaking the cycle of conditional love, ultimately leading to greater unconditional love, compassion, and freedom from suffering.

How to break cycle at each point:

To break the cycle of dependent origination in the context of conditional love, one can focus on breaking the chain at various points, including:

1. Ignorance (avijja): By cultivating wisdom and understanding that true love is unconditional and free from attachment and expectation, one can break the cycle of suffering arising from ignorance.

2. Mental formations (sankhara): By developing positive mental formations and patterns of thought that are grounded in unconditional love and non-attachment, one can weaken the link between mental formations and the perpetuation of conditional love.

3. Consciousness (viññana): By cultivating mindfulness and awareness of the minds perceptions and awareness of the world, one can become more aware of how the mind is conditioned by beliefs in conditional love, leading to greater freedom from attachment.

4. Name and form (nama-rupa): By recognizing that the body and mind are impermanent and constantly changing, one can release attachment to these manifestations, leading to greater freedom from attachment to conditional love.

5. The six sense bases (salayatana): By engaging in restrained and mindful use of the senses, one can become less reactive to sensory inputs that trigger the conditions for conditional love, lessening the attachment to it.

6. Contact (phassa): By practicing mindfulness of the sense bases and their interactions with the external world, one can develop a healthier relationship with sensory experiences and reduce attachment to the object of conditional love.

7. Feeling (vedana): By cultivating equanimity and non-reactivity towards pleasant and unpleasant feelings, one can weaken the attachment to the pleasant feelings arising from conditional love.

8. Craving (tanha): By developing insight into the nature of craving and its relationship to suffering, one can weaken the attachment to the object of craving - in this case, conditional love.

9. Clinging (upadana): By developing detachment and non-attachment, one can weaken the grip of clinging to the object of conditional love.

10. Becoming (bhava): By recognizing the karmic consequences of attachment to conditional love, one can cultivate wholesome mental patterns and actions that support unconditional love and freedom from attachment.

11. Birth (jati): By relinquishing attachment to the object of conditional love and embracing unconditional love, one can prevent the manifestation of negative behaviors such as possessiveness or jealousy.

12. Old age and death (jara-marana): By cultivating wisdom and insight into impermanence and the nature of suffering, one can release attachment to the object of conditional love and any associated negative consequences, leading to greater peace and freedom from suffering.

In summary, breaking the cycle of dependent origination in the context of conditional love involves cultivating mindfulness, wisdom, and non-attachment at various points in the chain. By weakening the grip of ignorance, craving, and clinging to conditional love, one can cultivate a healthier and more fulfilling approach to love and relationships, ultimately leading to greater peace and freedom from suffering.