Entering the Middle Way 12 | Why Cause and Effect Are Real but Not Truly Existent

If nothing truly arises, does that mean nothing matters?
In Lesson 12 of Entering the Middle Way, Khenpo Sodargye continues explaining the Madhyamaka analysis of arising. This teaching examines why phenomena do not arise from themselves, why arising from “other” also cannot be ultimately established, and how cause and effect still function within conventional truth.

This is the heart of the Middle Way: emptiness does not deny appearances, karma, or dependent arising. It reveals that things function precisely because they are not fixed, independent, or truly existent.

What you will discover:

① Why self-arising cannot be established
② The difference between ultimate truth and conventional truth
③ Why cause and effect still work without inherent existence
④ How Madhyamaka refutes arising from “other”
⑤ Why emptiness is not nihilism, but the wisdom that cuts grasping

00:00:00 Opening Verses and Bodhicitta Motivation
00:00:34 Entering the Middle Way and the Four Extremes of Arising
00:03:00 Ultimate Truth and Conventional Truth
00:06:00 Why Self-Arising Cannot Be Established
00:15:00 Nāgārjuna’s Reasoning Against Self-Arising
00:21:00 Dream-Like Dependent Arising and False Appearance
00:27:00 Refuting Arising from Other
00:30:00 The Four Conditions of Causality
00:36:00 The Fault of Everything Arising from Everything
00:45:00 The Opponent’s Defense of Cause and Result
00:57:00 Why Cause and Result Cannot Truly Be Distinct
01:06:00 Why Emptiness Does Not Deny the Conventional World
01:09:00 Cutting Grasping Through Madhyamaka Wisdom

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