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Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what buddha meant by "voidness."
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Reality Is Devoid Of Any Intrinsic Identity

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Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what buddha meant by "voidness."
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Buddha was speaking about reality. reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what buddha meant by "voidness." therefore, buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.
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The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a muslim or a hindu or a buddhist or a christian, i think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. we have our national identity. we have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.
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The western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. it is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.
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When i said that i am the buddha, the christ, the lord maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. i added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because i knew that people had a very limited understanding of the buddha and the christ, and hence if i said: 'i am the christ, the buddha', they would limit that reality to their own conceptions of the buddha or the christ, and life has no limit.
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