Interdependent Origination In The Four Noble Truths By Dalai Lama

As I was reading, The Four Noble Truths, there was a quote that caught my eye, in it, it states, “Once we appreciate that fundamental disparity between appearance and reality, we gain a certain insight into the way our emotions work and how we react to events and objects”(Lame p. 16) and I resonated with this quote. I don’t think I need to translate his wise words because it is so straight forward. In the book, The Four Noble Truths, dependent origination and two truths are covered.by the Dalai Lama. In the book, The Four Noble Truths, written by the Dalai Lama, he first explains that there are three dimensions of dependent origination. The Dalai Lama states the first dimension is understanding of the principle of interdependent origination, also known as

As stated in the text, “This principle means that all conditioned things and events in the universe come into being only as a result of the interaction of various causes and conditions”(Lama p.12). This is important because it precludes two possibilities. The first being, things can arise from nowhere, without reasoning and or conditions and the second is that things can arise on account of a transcendent designer or creator. The second dimension mentioned by the Dalai Lama, is understanding the principle of dependent origination in terms of parts and wholes. “All material objects can be understood in terms of how the parts compose the whole and how the very idea of ‘whole’ and ‘wholeness’ depends on the existence of parts” (Lama p. 13). A thing is only considered a whole by the sum of its parts. The third dimension is “…the meaning of dependent origination, which is that all things and events – everything, in fact – arise solely as a result of the mere coming together of the many factors