Understanding Dependent Arising, the Best Method for Realizing Emptiness (Part 1)
Teaching at Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Sept 3, 2021
HOW TO LOOSEN THE GRIP OF EGO-GRASPING BY UNDERSTANDING DEPENDENT ARISING, THE “KING OF LOGICS” FOR REALIZING EMPTINESS
Lama Tsongkhapa writes lyrically about Lord Buddha’s teachings on dependent arising – the “king of logics” to prove emptiness, as Lama Yeshe puts it. With this perfect view, Je Rinpoche says, we can never “fall into the abyss of the great mistake” of nihilism, one of the commonest misconceptions about emptiness.