Questions tagged [conventional-truth]
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Does AN 3.47 refer to only single standalone sankhara?
This question concerns the proper understanding of AN 3.47:
“Mendicants, conditioned phenomena have these three characteristics. What three? Arising is evident, vanishing is evident, and change while ...
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Is this noble right view? - "There is no mother or father, without the self"
The right view of the Noble Ones is described here as:
"There is no mother and father, without the self."
Buddha describes wrong view here:
“And what, bhikkhus, is wrong view? ‘There is nothing given,...
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Is the conventional existence of 'a being' just an agreement?
It is said by the bhikkhuni Vajira:
“Just as, with an assemblage of parts,
The word ‘chariot’ is used,
So, when the aggregates exist,
There is the convention ‘a being.’
SN 5.10
The pali translated ...
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To what extent does right view deny mother and father?
Believing that 'there is mother and father' is listed as right view affected by the taints.
“And what, bhikkhus, is right view that is affected by the taints, partaking of merit, ripening in the ...
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Why are Concepts not Impermanent?
Why are Concepts not Impermanent? I found the below explanation in another forum. Are they Permanent? or not both?
Conventional reality (sammuti sacca/ pannatti) is just a concept and
not real. Non-...
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Do "conditioned" and "conventional" mean the same thing in Buddhism?
By "conventional" I think those are the things created by human conventions, that are all imaginary.
By "conditioned" I think those are things that came from another thing or ...
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Is the conventional self "conventional" in the same way as dharmas are?
Is the conventional self "conventional" in the same way as dharmas are?
So if the conventionality of dharmas means that they arise and disappear each moment, or that they don't exist from ...
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Why is speaking about the conventional self in this life ok, but speaking about the conventional self in past and future lives forbidden?
It is widely understood across all Buddhist traditions that the Buddha often spoke of persons and used words like 'I' and 'person' and 'self' and this is not seen as problematic or contradictory to ...
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