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Thank you Stuka. I liked this part particularly:

"We learn to not invest emotions, assumptions, and expectations in what we experience, and thus we become mentally stable. Misery and suffering die out for lack of feeding."

Can you explain this more: "Chogtyam Trungpa seems to have turned "Ignorance" into a homunculus. It is important to understand when reviewing this material that the Buddha did not teach in terms of dualism or non-dualism."

This is the first of his writings that I have read and have yet to form an opinion about it. I have an open minded curiosity to different people's understandings at present, as within them, there could be water for the seed ...? You may have read much more of his writings ... is this an essential position and can you not identify with various parts of self operating that he describes here?

I also looked up pratityasamutpada thank you. There is a brief overview here for anyone else who is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratītyasamutpāda