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Are all things empty? - Nagarjuna & The Buddhist Middle Way

Let's Talk Religion

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The Importance of Dependency in Buddhism

The Buddha taught that there is no-self. The thing we think is ourselves, the thing we refer to when we say, I, is actually an illusion. All things in the world are dependent in their existence on other things. Everything is temporary and exists only in dependence on everything else. This leads to the conclusion that there kind of aren't any things at all.

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