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      The first two links of dependent origination say that ignorance gives rise to volitional formations or impulses.  The talk describes succesive layers of obscurations that form from ignorance, to a belief in self, to afflictive emotions, to unskillful actions.  The path undoes these layers by focusing, in order, on virtue, mediation, and wisdom, finally penetrating to nibbana. 
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