Wisdom of the Masters Dependent Origination ~ Paṭiccasamuppādasutta ~ Teachings of the Buddha
Sep 18, 2025
Explore the intricate chain of Dependent Origination, revealing how ignorance leads to suffering and how understanding can reverse this cycle. Discover the nature of dependently arisen phenomena, emphasizing their impermanence and the crucial elements of existence. Learn how a noble disciple’s insights dispel speculative views about the self and the continuum of life. Dive into profound teachings that illuminate the path to wisdom and liberation from suffering.
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Chain That Produces Suffering
- Dependent origination is a chain where ignorance conditions volitional formations, leading eventually to suffering.
- Reversing any link (ending ignorance) leads to cessation of the entire suffering sequence.
Cessation Unwinds The Chain
- The sutta explicitly shows that cessation of early links causes cessation downstream, up to the end of birth, aging, and death.
- This presents liberation as a stepwise unwinding of conditioned processes.
Timeless, Specific Conditionality
- The Buddha's teaching is presented as timeless, stable, and specifically conditioned regardless of whether a Tathagata arises.
- A Tathagata awakens to this pattern and then explains and analyzes it for others.