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Inherent Existence and the Universe
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05-24-2012, 11:29 PM
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Nagarjuna thoroughly dissected this notion of svabhava and blew it to smithereens.
what about this?
Your question should not be phrased in this way: Where do these four great elements — the earth property, the liquid property, the fire property and the wind property — cease without remainder? Instead, it should be phrased like this:
Where do water, earth, fire & wind
have no footing?
DN 11
here, buddha seems to avoid (keep silent on) the question of whether the four great elements are
svabhava
or not
svabhava
if the four great elements could cease without remainder then they would certainly be
not svabhava
instead, buddha redefines the question to accord with freedom from suffering
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