The first step on any spiritual path, Lama Marut says, is admitting we don’t know what’s going on (the suspicion that “something’s fishy”) Working through chapter 26 of Nāgārjuna’s Root Verses using the traditional Wheel of Life as the subject matter, he goes link by link through the twelve links of dependent origination and shows why they can’t 'really' happen one after another. Along the way: the emptiness of giver, gift and receiver, the four kinds of grasping, and why the irritating person makes your patience possible.