Bhikkhu Bodhi: Introduction to Buddhism - 4.Dependent Origination | Lectures 

Thanks! Now, perhaps, we need to hear these noble words a few dozen times. The whole world should hear them. Thank you for your care in teaching them in a way that reaches our hearts and minds. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu!

sadhu，sadhu，sadhu!thank you Bhante 🙏

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නමො බුද්ධ Frpm sri 🇱🇰

‣ Dependent Arising ( _Paṭicca samuppāda;_ counterpart to selflessness) - 0:15   ‣ "One who sees Dep. Arising sees the dhamma; one who sees the dhamma sees Dep. Arising." - 2:21   ‣ Discovery of Dep. Arising = enlightenment - 3:00   ‣ Very difficult to teach - 3:54   ‣ Essence of Buddha's teaching - 6:13 ‣ Two aspects to teaching (abstract/structural principle & application of principle) - 6:30   ‣ 1. Principle: law of conditionality; most fundamental law; underlying every process/event: beginningless & endless - 6:56     ‣ Ancient formula: "When there is this, that comes to be. With the arising of this, that arises. When there is not this, that does not come to be. With the ceasing of this, that ceases." - 8:16     ‣ Always operative; actual reality; unvariable, unalterable. - 11:08     ‣ Not the same as western causality ("cause & effect") - 11:59     ‣ Not a speculative theory; central to aim of dhamma (cessation of suffering, end to samsara) - 16:12     ‣ _Samsara:_ no beginning; distinct causal structure: sustained/in motion by precise conditions - 17:15       ‣ Twelve factors (spokes of existence) - 17:58         ‣ Ignorance         ‣ Volitional forms         -         ‣ Consciousness         ‣ Mentality & materiality         ‣ Six sense faculties         ‣ Contact         ‣ Feeling         ‣ Craving         ‣ Clinging         ‣ Existence         -         ‣ Birth         ‣ Aging & death