Christina, John, Stephen, and Akincano each share a brief outline of their journey with Buddhism and dependent arising.

"I remember on arriving in Dharamsala, one of the first things I bought was a woodblock print of the wheel of life—the cycle of birth and death—that I then spent the following weeks painting every little piece in a different color so that I turned the print into a thangka. It was perhaps my first contemplation of this topic."

"I began teaching dependent arising with John Peacock probably 20 years ago. My understanding of it grows every time. There's so much depth held within this one teaching that it it is really a lifetime's journey."

"Dependent arising is probably one of the teachings that most disagreements occur about within the Buddhist community. I have been intrigued about this teaching right from when I first met it. It's something I keep engaging my mind with. I keep seeing changes in my own understanding of it."

"I have been fascinated by this topic ever since I first encountered it. In fact, in one of the monasteries I studied in India, we studied this topic alone for three months. It is inexhaustible, both on an intellectual and practical level. In fact, with this teaching, the intellectual is the practical. It's a way of turning understanding into actual practice."