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How Dependent Origination Explains Samsara
- Dependent origination explains the chain from ignorance to death, showing how ignorance conditions volitional actions that lead to rebirth and suffering.
- Joseph Goldstein traces links: ignorance → actions → rebirth consciousness → mind-body → sense bases → contact → feeling, etc.
Feelings Seed Craving And Karma
- Feelings arise from contact between sense bases and objects, and these feelings (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral) seed craving that leads to grasping and volitional actions.
- Goldstein emphasizes volition as a potent karmic seed that carries potential for future rebirth.
Three Interlocking Cycles Keep Samsara Turning
- Dependent origination contains interlocking cycles: defilement (ignorance, craving, grasping), action (karma), and results (rebirth, sense experience) that perpetuate each other.
- The Mobius-strip image illustrates no beginning or end to these revolving cycles.