[Buddha-l] Emptiness and not being able to imagine dying [confused]

[Bob Zeuschner]

Hi --
I guess I'm not clear about what you are asking.
To the best of my knowledge the majority of Buddhists deny that any 
experience is immutable.
Are you asking about what the earliest Buddhist texts say about dying, 
or impermanence.
Are you asking about what the Sarvastivadins wrote, or the Theravadins 
wrote?
Are you asking if dharmas possess svabhava (self-existence)?
Are you asking about Nagarjuna's perspective?
Are you asking about the Lotus Sutra's perspective?
Or perhaps that of Chau-chou or Lin-chi?
I can tell that these issues are important to you, but I really am not 
clear what you want to know.
Bob


On 5/31/2010 4:31 PM, lemmett at talk21.com wrote:
> Well I asked some analytic philosophers about this and suddenly they weren't so interested in talking. It seems really relevant to dying and not at all the sort of thing that couldn't be guessed at.
> Is there no conceivable alternative to the tetralemma or just no alternative at all? If the latter I just don't understand - unless I accept that there is no tathagata that dies...
>
>>> Also can the list confirm that absolutely no dharma can be eternal from any perspective: that we can have no
>   evidence for the immutability of any experience?
>