Twelve Links of Dependent Arising

Once we have a little bit of an understanding of the twelve links of dependent arising and how our uncontrollably recurring rebirth, samsara, actually works, then we can focus with close placement of mindfulness on the feelings in terms of being the true origins of suffering....

With renunciation we’re not aiming for enlightenment; we’re aiming for liberation from samsara.

How cognition of voidness liberates us from uncontrollably recurring samsaric rebirth is not a simple or speedy process.

This series of teachings provides an in-depth analysis of the twelve links of dependent arising, which describe the mechanism of rebirth and the continuity of the mind through successive samsaric lives.

The twelve links of dependent arising describe how true suffering, the first noble truth, comes about from the true origin or cause of suffering, the second noble truth.

Nagarjuna’s text is a foundational treatise on Madhyamika philosophy consisting of 27 chapters. Chapter 26 offers an analysis of the twelve links of dependent arising.

The non-conceptual understanding of voidness will stop the tainted aggregates from uncontrollably recurring.