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Nagarjuna
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Nagarjuna states in his Mulamadhyamaka-Karika

Nothing whatever arises. Not from itself, not from other, not from both itself and other, and not from neither itself nor another.

I think this means that in reality things/beings don't appear at all. Although conventionally we say 'a house arises from bricks and mortar' or 'the new-born baby has arisen from the womb'.
So in a relative sense things arise, but Nagarjuna talks about the absolute, reality, truth, god, etc...

Not from itself, for if so then it was already there and didn't have to arise.
Not from other, for if so then it is just a continuation of other.
Not from both, for if so then it was already there as itself in the other.
Not without a cause, for if so then something arises from nothing and that is impossible.


So, anyone here a student of Nagarjuna? Feel free to add comments please.

Edited by Ahimsa (10/17/09 05:39 PM)

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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Never heard of Nagarjuna?

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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I love Nagarjuna

He negates everything for a very good reason

:peace:


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Chronic7]
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I believe in Medical Nagarjuna. :yesnod:


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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...for chronic ailments....


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Lion]
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It makes some posts more bearable. :sun:


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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Ahimsa said:
Never heard of Nagarjuna?


I thought the title of the thread was: Marijuana

Never mind  :crazy2:


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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This is the trouble with our minds: we always want to see things as this or that. What is the difference between rising and falling? Being and non-being?

Much easier to notice that things are real and not real together. But neither is important. The unity and duality will continue, however deeply we come to know it.



Only
That Illumined
One

Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form

Had the charm to win my
Heart.

Only a Perfect One

Who is always
Laughing at the word 
Two

Can make you know

Of

Love.

- Hafiz


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:bliss:

It's the same thing.

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: yelyarb]
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Nagarjuna is explaining the concept of emptiness, which can best be described as the infinite possibility inherent in the universe. If everything arises out of nothing, what does that mean about the nature of everything?


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: yelyarb]
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"No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of."

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Middleman]
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things dont arise out of nothing... oh god who is this nagarjuana guy...

a house does not 'arise' from bricks and mortar. According to actions of men (which we still havnt worked out), energy flows in a certain way through their bodies and through their tools to result in exchanges of kenetic and chemical energy. The house was always in the universe, but it used to be spread out amongst all of the resources in shops and warehouses and in the ground. Then, those resources were re-arranged into a house.

All perceptions are based on configurations of the universe. Nothing 'arises' except perceptions. The universe itself just changes in the relative orientations of its parts. These parts are energy, essentially. Energy flowing all around.


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Noteworthy]
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For those who do not know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna#Writings

Some of his works:
http://buddhistlinks.org/NagarjunaWorks.htm

He is highly regarded by the Dalai Lama as an important buddhist philosopher.

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Colonel Graff]
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I essentially agree with him.. I realise now that it is you that I disagree with. When you say that things don't appear at all. Do you believe in magic? Surely you dont think the baby just appears from the womb.. it grows inside the womb from nutrients that the mother eats?
In the 'absolute' reality, there is no 'appearing'. but that is because 'appear' implies a relation to perception. When things appear, they appear into the perception of something.

Arising is a bit more general, if something arises it generally means a phenomenon is occuring, and this can be supported by scientific means as well as perception.

I think it is pretty profound when you consider a child as a continuation of its parents. Is that an example that Nagajuna gives?


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Middleman]
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Nagarjuna avoids both nihilism and essentialism. How?

Well, all things are compounded and therefore without a self-existing essence. Thus avoiding essentialism.
Now, all things are compounded and therefore not un-existent at all. Thus avoiding nihilism.

See!

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Noteworthy]
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Noteworthy said:
I essentially agree with him.. I realise now that it is you that I disagree with. When you say that things don't appear at all. Do you believe in magic? Surely you dont think the baby just appears from the womb.. it grows inside the womb from nutrients that the mother eats?
In the 'absolute' reality, there is no 'appearing'. but that is because 'appear' implies a relation to perception. When things appear, they appear into the perception of something.

Arising is a bit more general, if something arises it generally means a phenomenon is occuring, and this can be supported by scientific means as well as perception.

I think it is pretty profound when you consider a child as a continuation of its parents. Is that an example that Nagajuna gives?


My explaination was a very loose explaination of concepts that can't be understood through words. Where do the nutrients that the mother eats come from? Where do the atoms that form those nutrients come from? These questions all boil down to the nature of life. How do things come to be?
There is no underlying cause for the existence of things, their absolute nature is empty.


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Noteworthy]
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Perhaps 'perceptions' too are spread all about, only to be assembled in the mind given the right conditions?

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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perceptions are a product of mind and the mind is no less empty than the universe


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Middleman]
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What's a nihilist?


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It's the same thing.

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: yelyarb]
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For the nihilist everything is in vain.  :waits:

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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Ahimsa said:
For the nihilist everything is in vain.  :waits:



Not true IMO. Things may be "meaningless" on a cosmic level but the true Nihilist as opposed to the cynic takes what they find and makes the best of it. A real nihilist is a hedonist at heart. He/she knows nothing matters and finds ways to enjoy that.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Icelander]
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Quote:
He/she knows nothing matters and finds ways to enjoy that.


Actually yes. Vanity in everything is unbearable.  :bomb:

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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What if everything mattered, and didn't matter, at the same time? What if the essential "meaningless-ness of everything" gives free ground for all the meanings imaginable?

Just because life isn't special, doesn't mean it isn't special.

True words are paradoxical... sometimes.

=D


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It's the same thing.

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: yelyarb]
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No words are true, but paradox is closest.
My point was that true monism = true nihilism.
Nihilism isn't having no beliefs, it's believing in no thing.

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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Quote:
For the nihilist everything is in vain.


For the junkie, everything is in vein. :lol:


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: yelyarb]
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Nice. That makes sense.

Alternatively, everything is meaningful, be we pick out what is so to us!

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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A True nihilist completey rejects the notion of being a nihilist :lol:

:peace:


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Chronic7]
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In that case a true Buddhist isn't even a Buddhist.

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Post deleted by Lakefingers

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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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Ahimsa said:
In that case a true Buddhist isn't even a Buddhist.


Its true

"a real monk does not wear the label 'i am a monk'"

:peace:


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Re: Nagarjuna [Re: Ahimsa]
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Exactly. Like my favorite Bear is wont to say on occasion, it's the same thing.  =D

:strokebeard:

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