[AgindyMinnife]

So nothing and nobody really exists, in absolute terms.

Its not that anything doesn't exist in absolute terms. From my understanding (and shoot me down folks if I've got it ass backwards), its that nothing has a separate individual existence. You are the product of the genes of your ancestors right back to mitochondrial eve, the food they ate, the water they drank, the sun that warmed there skin, the furs and textiles that kept them warm in winter etc. Even your thoughts are the products of the thousands of decisions both skillful and unskillful of everyone, of you, your ancestors, your teachers and your culture and if your into the whole rebirth thing your karmic predispositions.

@Aloka-D thanks for the sutta quote - liked that one a lot.