"This body composed of the four great elements is seen standing for a year, two years, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred years or more." 1/2
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This is moving towards interesting ground. This dog which*is* Buddha nature, as a puppy before contaminated by human interactions becomes something else then its essential nature as a result. So it is with us born with a human essence and consciousness we through poor education
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and weakness allow that another is grafted onto the essential or Buddha nature. This reactionary mechanism, personality, becomes the default filter through which we live life. This division in function is alluded to below IMOpic.twitter.com/QYP4qdVC9v
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huh? if "Buddha Nature" = Singular (The Future in General) then a millions puppies are actually puppies; and a million atoms are actually atoms; "Buddha Nature" is just "Buddha" or just "Nature" or "Future Deniability" as we shouldn't deny the Future (Singular) of others (plural)
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"unity" in multiplicity is always a post-hoc mental fabrication, It's reminiscent of the sexual act insofar as it is an attempt and "syn"thesis. it is also an exercise in essentialism which privileges the spirit instead of a nuanced investigation of plurality/materiality.
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the false generalizations are easy to see in English but I don't know all languages obviously : Nothing this Nothing that is Everything this and Everything that. Paradoxes just claim to invert predictions (fiction) and observations (nonfiction
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