Paticcasamuppada and the Nidanas, October 3, 2016
Recording: https://mudlotus.org/audio/Paticcasamuppada20161003.mp3 So, today we are going to talk about paticcasamuppada, which is a Pali term for dependent origination. It's another way of saying that all things are interdependent. It's a way of saying that everything that arises has causes and that everything that arises is itself a cause. The interesting part in that is the 'sam' which means together. So, it arises together. It co-arises. So, if you think of a wonderful team, right, how does that team work? It co-creates things. The work of that team comes together. It is not like, oh, this person created it, this person does this, and then that person does that. It is not like a waterfall. No, they made it together. So, dependent origination is more of a traditional translation, but it is a co-arising of things dependent on other things. It truly is more of an interdependence. Why is t...