Dependent origination:
The enlightenment (or bodhi, a word that means
"to awaken") of the Buddha was simultaneously his
liberation from suffering (dukkha) and his
insight into the nature of the Universe
particularly the nature of the lives of sentient
beings (principally humans and animals). What the
Buddha awakened to was the truth of dependent origination.
This is the understanding that any phenomenon
exists only because of the existence of other
phenomena in an incredibly complex web of cause
and effect covering time past, time present and
time future. This concept of a web is symbolized
by Indra's net, a multidimensional spider's web
on which lies an infinite amount of dew drops or
jewels, and in these are reflected the
reflections of all the other drops of dew ad infinitum.
Stated in another way, everything depends on
everything else. A human being's existence in any
given moment is dependent on the condition of
everything else in the world at that moment, but
in an equally significant way, the condition of
everything in the world in that moment depends
conversely on the character and condition of that
human being. Everything in the Universe is
interconnected through the web of cause and
effect such that the whole and the parts are
mutually interdependent. The character and
condition of entities at any given time are
intimately connected with the character and
condition of all other entities that
superficially may appear to be unconnected or unrelated.
Because all things are thus conditioned and
transient (anicca), they have no real independent
identity (anatta) and thus do not truly exist,
though to ordinary minds this appears to be the
case. All phenomena are therefore fundamentally
insubstantial and empty (sunya).
Wise human beings, those who "see things as they
are" (yatha-bhuta-ñana-dassana), renounce
attachment and clinging, transform the energy of
desire into awareness and understanding, and
eventually transcend the conditioned realm of form becoming Buddhas or Arhats.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_arising>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_arising
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The Universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in
which each is a reflection of all the others in a
fantastic, interrelated harmony without end.
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