Entering the Middle Way

If karma has no inherent nature, how can it still produce results? In Lesson 17 of Entering the Middle Way, Khenpo Sodargye uses Chandrakirti's dream analogy to show why emptiness and infallible cause and effect are not in conflict — they depend on each other. What this lesson covers ① The dream analogy: how karma with no inherent nature still ripens perfectly ② Why emptiness doesn't mean "anything goes" — karma has its own precise, unconfused rules ③ The Madhyamaka response to the Mind-Only school's alaya consciousness ④ Why the Buddha taught the alaya as skillful means — and why it is provisional teaching ⑤ Introduction to the Mind-Only school's three natures and the ocean-wave analogy 👇 Follow the timestamps below to explore each section.