Deconstructing Dependent Arising, with Leigh Brasington
Deconstructing Yourself
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Having a Mind and Body Is Dependent on Consciousness
In buddhism, there are six senses. There are the five external senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and then the sixth sense of the mind. In other words, you don't find senses wandering around, except if they're imbedded in mind and body. So consciousness requires tess as anan object. An object is a sankara, something that's manufactured. And sankaras arise dependent on ignorance - which sounds a little strange until you really begin to get into the depths of the buddhist teachings. The things that are made together are actually what our mind is doing. They don't have independent existence. We chop it up into bits and
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