Buddha's greatest teaching, Dependent Origination, reveals the profound mechanics of life, self, and reality. #buddha #buddhism #philosophy #enlightenment #dharma #dhamma

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📚 Recommended Reading

▶ Walpula Rahula Thero: What the Buddha Taught

▶ Thich Nhat Hanh: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

▶ Rupert Gethin: Foundations of Buddhism

Free access to Early Buddhist scripture:
www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html
www.accesstoinsight.org/index.html

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⌛ Timestamps

00:00 Intro
02:56 Buddha's insight into causality
06:00 The 12 links of Dependent Origination explained
08:57 The 4 kinds of clinging
24:07 Consciousness
34:05 The 4 Noble Truths
40:37 The 2 types of causality
44:49 Dependent Origination across 3 lives
45:19 Buddha's original simile for Dependent Origination
48:53 Dependent Origination & non-self
51:00 Dependent Origination & karma (free will)
52:35 Dependent Origination & emptiness (shunyata)
54:39 Dependent Origination & the 3 marks of existence
55:30 Dependent Origination & ignorance
57:15 Dependent Origination & liberation (nirvana)
01:01:42 Transcendental Dependent Origination

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📝 Script

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