We all want to find happiness and be free from suffering. Happiness comes from positive mental states and actions, and suffering from the opposite. The twelve-part process of dependent arising shows how actions underlain by ignorance propel us from one rebirth into another, keeping us trapped in suffering, and how through understanding reality correctly we can break this cycle. The four noble truths, the twelve links of dependent arising, and the two truths regarding conventional and ultimate reality, all interrelated, form the very core of the Buddha's teaching. The many different practices of sutra and tantra become meaningful and purposeful only when they are based on a good understanding of these fundamental and seminal principles. This oral teaching by Geshe Sonam Rinchen is based on the Rice Seedling Sutra and the twenty-sixth chapter of Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Middle Way.
- ISBN10 6612625910
- ISBN13 9786612625916
- Publish Date 19 July 2006 (first published 1 January 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 May 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Shambhala Publications Inc
- Imprint Snow Lion Publications
- Format eBook
- Pages 160
- Language English