Core tenet of Buddhism
All things arise dependently.
Pratityasamutpada: nothing stands alone — everything arises with conditions and ceases with them.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Pratityasamutpada, dependent arising — the claim the Buddha called the deepest thing he saw. Nothing is self-made; everything arises with conditions and ends with them. Mahayana philosophy later ground this into its sharpest form: if everything depends, nothing has independent essence — the emptiness the Heart Sutra compresses into a few lines.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
When this is, that is. When this arises, that arises. When this is not, that is not. When this ceases, that ceases.
The dependent-arising formula — SN 12The tradition's own four-line compression of the teaching.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Atman and Brahman are one — the self is the absolute.
Hinduism
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Syadvada — the sevenfold answer.
Jainism
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God contracted to make room for the world.
Judaism
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Fana.
Islam · the interior
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Sahaj — the state that holds by itself.
Sikhism · the interior
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Five forms, one Brahman.
Smartism
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