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**Klissineopar** · 11-22-2011, 06:29 AM

That is the challenge, isn't ? Doctrinal definitions and dogma about factors of existance, like emptiness, unsatisfactoriness, impermanence ? Bizarre conundrum, really.
Personally I find the understandings from Buddhist teachings unique, and so I guess I disagree with Kris ( now that might be a first !

) in that it appears to me, as Ratikala was suggesting, before the Buddha and even now, to use Kris's example, the thought is that unicorns exist.
The fact that classical teachings from some traditions and certain schools today focus more on this ( ie. emptiness ) than others is irrelevant, to my mind.

11-22-2011, 06:29 AM	#16
Klissineopar Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 421 Senior Member	That is the challenge, isn't ? Doctrinal definitions and dogma about factors of existance, like emptiness, unsatisfactoriness, impermanence ? Bizarre conundrum, really. Personally I find the understandings from Buddhist teachings unique, and so I guess I disagree with Kris ( now that might be a first ! ) in that it appears to me, as Ratikala was suggesting, before the Buddha and even now, to use Kris's example, the thought is that unicorns exist. The fact that classical teachings from some traditions and certain schools today focus more on this ( ie. emptiness ) than others is irrelevant, to my mind.
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