Study · 7 texts · about 50 minutes
Dependent Origination
How suffering arises through conditions and how it ceases when the conditions cease. Read the definitions first, then the great expositions.
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The twelve links stated in forward and reverse order.
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Each link defined, from ignorance to old age and death. Keep this one open while reading the others.
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The middle teaching that avoids the extremes of “all exists” and “all does not exist”.
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Transcendent dependent origination: from suffering to faith, joy, immersion and freedom.
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The Bodhisatta’s own discovery, and the simile of the ancient city found in the jungle.
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A monk claims consciousness transmigrates unchanged; the Buddha shows how consciousness arises dependently.
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The great discourse on causation, including the mutual conditioning of consciousness and name-and-form.