Secular Buddhism 97 - Dependent Origination
Apr 25, 2019
Explore the concept of dependent origination in Buddhism and how it explains the interdependent nature of all phenomena. Understand how observing things as they are can weaken the chain of conditioning and develop skillful relationships with ourselves and others.
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Everything Arises Interdependently
- Dependent origination shows everything arises from interconnected causes and conditions, not independently.
- Seeing experiences as links in a web reduces mistaking transient events for absolute reality.
Don't Read The Links As A Linear Chain
- The 12 links are best seen as a web of interdependent processes, not a strict linear chain.
- Crystallization of experience creates the illusion of a fixed reality from transient causes.
Simple Formula For Interdependence
- 'When this is, that is; when this is not, that is not' summarizes interdependence simply and powerfully.
- Recognizing this reduces the assumption that phenomena exist independently or permanently.