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**Erunsenef** · 06-24-2011, 05:37 AM

Thanks everyone

So the polarity of atthitā and natthitā is actually or similar to "I am alive/I exist" and "I will die/I will cease to exist". The "I" is still there, to exist or to be anihilated.

Or in the Mahayana sense, "when one sees the origination of the world with right view", one does not see "wholes" or "entities" but simply the arising/manifesting of causes & conditions (and similarily, the cessation/collapsing of causes and conditions).

It appears the terms natthitā and atthitā are what needed to be clarified here.

OK. "I" am happy now.

06-24-2011, 05:37 AM	#9
Erunsenef Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	Thanks everyone So the polarity of atthitā and natthitā is actually or similar to "I am alive/I exist" and "I will die/I will cease to exist". The "I" is still there, to exist or to be anihilated. Or in the Mahayana sense, "when one sees the origination of the world with right view", one does not see "wholes" or "entities" but simply the arising/manifesting of causes & conditions (and similarily, the cessation/collapsing of causes and conditions). It appears the terms natthitā and atthitā are what needed to be clarified here. OK. "I" am happy now.
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