Dependent Arising

Concluding Verses of the Third Section of the Text Having pointed out the trouble that our self-grasping and self-cherishing causes, and identifying that self-cherishing and self-grasping lie underneath the various problems and suffering that we have, Dharmarakshita finishes...

Recognizing Anything to Which Mind Gives Rise The Fourth Panchen Lama next explains how to cultivate seeing everything to be like illusion with the deep awareness we subsequently attain after we arise from total absorption on voidness. We cultivate this during our so-called...

Realizing the Voidness of Mind Itself Once we have gained conviction in the lack of true and inherent identity on the basis of our own "self," we turn to the basis of other persons or individuals and then to the massive network of all other phenomena. We examine voidness...

Statement of the Problem The most basic mental activity during each moment of our experience is to produce mental objects and simultaneously to engage with them. If, however, the actual object we perceive with mirror-like awareness is merely an appearance our mind creates,...

With correct understanding of voidness, we also correctly understand the different levels of dependent arising.

When we correctly understand emptiness (voidness), we correctly understand dependent arising; and when we correctly understand dependent arising, we correctly understand emptiness.

This article explores the dynamics of relating to others as part of the ongoing process of providing a bridge between modern Western thought and Buddhism.

With a correct understanding of voidness and dependent arising, we will avoid the two extremes of absolutism and nihilism, and then be best able to deal with the complexities of life.

The entire scope of mind training to transform negative attitudes into positive ones is summarized in eight verses.

Following his attainment of non-conceptual cognition of voidness (emptiness), Tsongkhapa wrote this eulogy giving poetical expression to his enormous appreciation of Buddha’s kindness in teaching the non-contraction between voidness and dependent arising.