Linked Discourses (Vol. 2)The Group of Linked Discourses Beginning With Causation is named after the first and longest section, which deals with the core Buddhist teaching of Dependent Origination. Dependent origination presents a series of conditional links laying bare how suffering originates and how it ends. Integrating psychological and existential aspects of suffering, it shows how when bound by attachment we make choices that bind us to transmigrating into future lives,