Questions tagged [existence]
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What are the boundaries of existence and non-existence in Buddhism?
We find plenty of similar discussions in the Theravada tradition, cf. (for example) kv6.1 or kv5.5
kv5.5 https://suttacentral.net/kv5.5/en/aung-rhysdavids?lang=en
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Is the whole of reality what is being denied by some Buddhists?
Is the whole of reality what is being denied by some Buddhists?
So, for as long as the sensation of pleasure or an atom or visual consciousness or apple is thought to belong to everything that exists,...
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Is the word 'real' synonymous with 'exists' in Buddhist doctrine?
Are these two words synonymous? Is everything that exists, real? Is everything real, an existent? What is a proper relationship between the words "real" and "exists" in the context ...
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What does Buddhism say about Antinatalism? [duplicate]
Antinatalism is the view that it is ethically wrong to procreate any sort of sentient beings, be it human or otherwise because to exist means also to experience pain, pleasure, suffering, bodily ...
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Why are we "trapped" in cyclic rebirth?
If we are trapped in Cyclic Rebirth, we are then being held against our will..
If we are being held against our will, who or what has set this trap?
If I escape, where am I escaping to?
As with all of ...
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Do we perceive the whole?
According to I think all Buddhists, the whole is nothing more than its parts. I've read it claimed that, given everything is partite, nothing exists. Perhaps Being means something more than its parts, ...
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Why is 'dukkha' included in one of the three marks of existence?
In this link and this link the Buddha says that "there is stress" (or suffering or whatever your preferred translation of dukkha is). The Buddha does not say that suffering (dukkha) is ...
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Is Buddha Nature the original state, i.e. Awareness/ Consciousness without Existence?
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss is described as Brahman by Vedanta but surely that only applies when viewed through the veil of Maya and experienced as the universe. As awareness/ consciousness is ...
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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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I feel like I'm in the wrong place
I feel like I was born in the wrong place and I'm surrounded by wrong people, ideals etc.
I'm very much into buddhism, but with all the things I learned until now, that I'm 23 in Germany, I feel ...
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In Yogacara Buddhism, is discontinuity an illusion, and does change arise?
Buddhists talk about discontinuity
ordinary consciousness consists of the discrete cetas
and illusion
all is illusion and the external objects are nothing but the creations
of our mind
In ...
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3 marks of existence
Is this person describing the 3 marks of existence in the right way.
What the Buddha showed was that the actual reality of “this world” is described by the three characteristics of anicca, dukkha, ...
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"Being" or "Existence" in Paticca Samuppada
Did Buddha mean the term "being or existence" as used in everyday life or different from those such as co-arising with contact and feeling and attachment ?
In case Buddha meant the latter I believe ...
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Buddhism on We are all one
As explained here Buddhism does no belong into pantheism because God can be interpreted no as oneness but a creation of the mind as the fourth aggregate explains (eg. "an invisible man who lives in ...
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What sort of infinite regress to birth is Nagarjuna's MMK arguing for?
I start with some quotes, to show how I got to two specific questions about Buddhism, then a question that is more philosophical and general.
Batchelor's translation of Nagajuna's MMK:
I bow down ...
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Why would existence remove my knowledge after reicarnation?
Avidyā and moha which can be translated as confusion or ignorance are sources of suffering. The western term for the study of reality and knowledge is called "philosophy" which an be translated from ...
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Is the existence of life & teaching Dhamma a form of attachment?
I read the following comment on the internet (reference):
By existing you are attached to this reality. If I die then I won't exist according to Buddhism. Therefore I won't be attached to reality.
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