Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature by Bstan-Dzin-rgya

Author:Bstan-Dzin-rgya [Bstan-Dzin-rgya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781614295556
Goodreads: 40703107
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2019-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

REFLECTION

1. Review the process of how the twelve links produce a new rebirth according to the explicit and the two implicit presentations.

2. Make an example, using a formative action created under the influence of ignorance in your present life, of how a set of twelve links could unfold in the future.

3. How does this reflection affect your attitude toward life?

Flexibility

In all of the above situations, different elements of many sets of twelve links may occur during the present life. While we are experiencing the results of one set of twelve links, many new sets of twelve links are initiated with the creation of links 1–3a. While sometimes the projected and actualized effects occur soon after the projecting causes, in other situations a long interval may ensue. Cyclic existence is terrifying, for as we live out each saṃsāric existence, we ignorantly create the causes for many more.

Vasubandhu says that once the links of craving, clinging, and renewed existence occur, the bardo follows. There is no reversal of the process; it is not possible to accumulate new projecting karma in the bardo, and the links of birth and aging or death from that set of the twelve links will definitely occur (ADK):

Once the intermediate state of a particular birth is actualized, it [the rebirth of that set of twelve links] will not waver.

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