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Understanding "the self-nature of phenomena is not found in the conditions"
In Cracking The Walnut: Understanding the Dialectics of Nagarjuna, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how in the four conditions out of which a phenomenon arises (seed condition, continuity condition, object of ...
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Why is continuity like "the light of a lamp"?
Because the continuity of the aggregates is similar to the light of a lamp, therefore the very existence or non-existence of an end is
unreasonable.
https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/...
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Would you say the "dharma" explains "dharmas"
I remember the 1st book I read on Buddhism was about 'dharma' and that this has a few meanings, including, at least 'teaching' and 'element' (I suppose both of these are English glosses).
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What is the cause of suffering in Buddhism, is it wanting, craving, attachment, or something else?
I've looked at other responses on Buddhism exchange and googled it too, and I'm still confused about the cause of suffering. Is there one root cause? Multiple causes? Or does Buddhism claim not to ...
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What happens to a cause after it has generated an effect?
What happens to a cause after it has generated an effect?
I don't think it can cease to really exist, as it never really existed in the first place. Does the effect somehow - metaphorically - crowd ...
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In any Buddhist Context, is there a Necessary Existent
I'm asking this ontological question as in the context of, e.g., an Aristotelian Prime Unmoved Mover, or some other first cause.
My guess is that there isn't, probably based on Dependent Origination ...
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The Simultaneity of Cause and Effect
The conventional Buddhist view of causality is that the present
negative and positive effects we see in our lives are a result of
negative and positive causes that we created in the past. So in order
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In Buddhism, is the effect ontologically independent of the cause?
In Buddhism, is the effect ontologically independent of the cause? I'm not asking if the effect makes the cause, which I think would amount to "ontic" dependence; but if the effect can exist ...
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Emptiness in mind and in reality
Recent exchange here got me thinking. Nagarjuna's karika, 1.3 (Batchelor)
Na hi svabhāvo bhāvānāṃ pratyayādiṣu vidyate
Avidyamāne svabhāve parabhāvo na vidyate
The essence of things ...
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What arguments are there for "karma" -- that the agent inevitably experiences the result of their actions?
There are philosophical arguments for e.g. 'emptiness', as evidenced by it having sections in philosophy encyclopedias. Whether or not you agree with them, probably depends on your language and pre-...
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In the trisvabhava theory, is the consummate nature inflected by past present and future conditions?
In the trisvabhava theory, is the consummate nature inflected by past present and future conditions? Or is it always the same and independent of causal conditions?
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Is continuity just causation?
Is continuity just causation?
When a fire is caused by a spark, is that the same kind of continuity as there is in the dependent origination of the skandhas, just with different causes and effects?
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Does the effect make its cause?
Does a cause depend on its effect? If so then it seems especially difficult to think about nothingness being made or created.
This is almost the exact opposite of a question I have asked recently (I'...
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Bad behavior (and therefore bad kamma?) due to physical ailments
In this TEDx Talk Youtube video at timestamp 12m 36s, Dr. Daniel Amen told the story of a nine year old boy named Andrew, who attacked a girl on a field for no particular reason and he had other ...
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Has anyone read Nagarjuna as claiming only that an effect is never its cause?
Has anyone read Nagarjuna as claiming only that an effect can never be conceived of as its cause?
I'm asking because it would neatly fit my own views on how to understand science, as well as I think ...
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Are reasons causes?
When we ask someone "why do you do that?", we are asking for her/his reasons.
It someone asks me "why do you play tennis?" and I say "I like to stay fit and I like to have fun. Tennis is good ...
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How does cause depend on its effect?
This philosophical treatment of Nagarjuna by Westerhoff talks about how a cause depends on its effect.
I think that this point is a stumbling block for me but in my philosophical interpretations of ...
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Causation without causes
I just reread Bachelor's translation of MMK.
It struck me that the argument against causation was that:
A cause has no essence in addition to what it is, else it would not be the final cause. But it ...
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How does our inactions contribute to Karma?... For eg:How can you justify act of your cook killing an animal for your non buddhist guest?
I came to know His Holiness Dalai Lama serves his guests meat at his residency.... Is it dharma to ask your cook to kill an animal to serve your guest or further is it not your dharma to ask your cook ...
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Have any Buddhist thinkers responded to the critique of the Brahma Sutras?
By far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy, which almost all Hindus nowadays belong to, is the Vedanta school, which is based on an ancient Hindu work called the Brahma Sutras or Vedanta ...
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"Free will" or just 'will' ? [closed]
The term "free will" can imply that one's will is without causes. But whenever we make a decision, it always has causes.
ex: If you have just enough money to buy either an apple or a chocolate for a ...
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