無為法

Also known as asaṃskṛta dharma, which is anything not subject to the principle of cause and effect, nor law of dependent origination, i.e. conditions. It is the dharma beyond the worldly ones.

They have no independent entity in reality, so they are called Conditioned Dharmas. However, there are Dharmas that are independent of conditions, called Unconditioned Dharmas. They can be taken as the static nature of mind/consciousness.

 There are 6 Dharmas in this kind, with reference to the Five Kinds of A Hundred Dharmas:

1. Space ( 虛空無為 )
2. Extinction obtained by knowledge ( 擇滅無為 )
3. Extinction not by knowledge but by nature ( 非擇滅無為 )
4. Extinction by a motionless state of heavenly meditation ( 不動滅無為 )
5. Extinction by the stoppage of idea and sensation by an Arhat ( 想受無為 )
6. True Suchness ( 真如無為 )