This week's talk is all about the conditionality of things. In Buddhism, this is known as Dependent Arising or Dependent Origination. As MOI teacher Mark Wiesman states, this teaching is "profound, hard to see and understand, unattainable by pure reasoning." As such, Mark spends the hour unpacking this challenging topic. Except for Nibbāna (the unconditioned), everything relies on causes and conditions for its arising. "When this arises, that arises. When this ceases, that ceases," Mark explains. "Everything is a condition for something else. Every condition is a condition for another condition." Even though Dependent Arising can be hard to grasp conceptually, Mark encourages us to just gently see things as they are: impermanent and constantly changing. Simply see that all experience is a flow of arising and ceasing conditions.

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