The "twelve-point-dependent-origination" (//paticcasamuppada//) starts with ignorance (//avijja//) and goes through kamma formations (//sankhara//), rebirth consciousness, mind and matter, sense contacts, feeling, craving, clinging, becoming, birth, and ends with death. Getting…
The Buddha was like a doctor, treating the spiritual ills of the human race. The path of practice he taught was like a course of therapy for suffering hearts and minds. This way of understanding the Buddha and his teachings dates back to the earliest texts, and yet is also very current. …
