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**Kvkcgktl** · 06-13-2011, 08:48 AM

When I first came into "Buddhism" it was thorugh the popular Buddhist bestsellers -Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh- where, and mostly the last one, likes to give a different approach to DO, widen it into poetic and pseudo scientific constraints... the flowering of the cherry trees are about those; I thought that was what Buddhism was about. In such a way, DO resulted a kind of exotic view of the world but it did not work for what it is taught... Some time later, reading the Pali Dhamma, the teachings of the historical Buddha, DO took a radical shift, from poetry and world views into being a teaching about ignorance and how it arises with its entire mass of stress and suffering in dependence of elements that can result interdependent. This approach works better, IMO.

Hi Kaarine, it is interesting to hear how your understanding of DO developed early on .... my own experience has been very different; the sutta you quote above was one of the first readings I was given to investigate.

06-13-2011, 08:48 AM	#5
Kvkcgktl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 339 Senior Member	When I first came into "Buddhism" it was thorugh the popular Buddhist bestsellers -Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh- where, and mostly the last one, likes to give a different approach to DO, widen it into poetic and pseudo scientific constraints... the flowering of the cherry trees are about those; I thought that was what Buddhism was about. In such a way, DO resulted a kind of exotic view of the world but it did not work for what it is taught... Some time later, reading the Pali Dhamma, the teachings of the historical Buddha, DO took a radical shift, from poetry and world views into being a teaching about ignorance and how it arises with its entire mass of stress and suffering in dependence of elements that can result interdependent. This approach works better, IMO. Hi Kaarine, it is interesting to hear how your understanding of DO developed early on .... my own experience has been very different; the sutta you quote above was one of the first readings I was given to investigate.
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