Buddha-Sasana

A history of emptiness

The teaching of emptiness is often considered to be an innovation of Nagarjuna or of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. However this important teaching had been expounded by the Buddha many centuries before, but has become obscured. But how?

Ignorace: what to do about it

In this last talk on our long series on Dependent Coarising, we look at how we live without presumptions: without views and without existing objects. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 25)

Ignorance: the enabler of the chain

Ignorance is the source of presumption, from which the rest of the links flow. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 24)

Formations: the workings of karma

The formations are the site of karma (volition) and the dispositions that give rise to our ethical choices. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 23)

Formations: the building blocks of the world

Formations are dispositionally conditioned conceptual choices that form the basis of all cognition. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 22)

Cognizance: the magic show

We explore the enormous depth and imagination of cognizance, and how it manages to convince us that this is real. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 21)

Cognizance: the whirlpool that constructs the world

Cognizance is the creative aspect of cognition, always in conversation with name and form, our cumulative understanding of the world. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 20)

Name and Appearance: negotiating the world

This talk discusses how the factors of form, feeling, perception, intention, contact and attention determine how the world appears to us. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 19)

Name and appearance: the objects of the world

Name and form provides an interactive model of cognition for mapping sensual data to cognizance. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 18)

The sixfold sphere: letting go of the eye

The sixfold sphere is the process of presuming. Once we understand the process, we can presume otherwise. These talks on Dependent Co-Arising supplement a text available as a pdf at: sitagu.org/shortlinks/coarising/  (DC 17)