Dharma Talk

Awakening from Delusion: Dependent Arising and the Nature of Suffering (41min)

The Inner Rhythm Being Retreat July 2025

In this talk, Renata explores the Buddha’s profound teaching on Dependent Arising, a central insight into the dynamic, interwoven nature of existence. Highlighting how identity and suffering arise from misperceiving reality as fixed and separate, she explains how clinging to the five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness—creates a false sense of self and solidity. Through embodied presence and direct inquiry into our lived experience, we can begin to see through the illusion of separation and awaken to the fluid, contingent nature of reality. This path, though destabilizing at times, reveals a deeper groundless ground—a liberation from the need for certainty and control. Drawing from both Buddhist texts and modern teachings, Renata invites us into a personal and transformative engagement with impermanence, offering the possibility of freedom not through escape but through intimacy with the truth of our moment-to-moment experience.