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See @Aupmanyav the way you define the Jain Jiva and moving to the unconstructed. That's a good example of what I meant in my last post that the Jiva may not fundamentally conflict with Buddhism.
@Lyndon Buddhists don't deny the existence of a true self, in a manner of speaking, but we are less quick to philosophize about it. It invites the possibility to get caught in the ego. The ego tries to cling to having substance, but is produced by the Skandhas. In Mahayana we have several names for this true self/nature of Dharmas like Citta and Tathata. Tathata means the suchness nature of all Dharmas and the unfathomable nature of the Buddha body: Dharmakaya.
This unfathomable real nature of the unconstructed is alluded to in the Heart Sutra with the following line: all dharmas are forms of/marked with emptiness- meaning there is something to Dharmas being discussed. Some also translate the Heart Sutra this way: the characteristics of the voidness of all Dharmas 'IS'...
@Lyndon Buddhists don't deny the existence of a true self, in a manner of speaking, but we are less quick to philosophize about it. It invites the possibility to get caught in the ego. The ego tries to cling to having substance, but is produced by the Skandhas. In Mahayana we have several names for this true self/nature of Dharmas like Citta and Tathata. Tathata means the suchness nature of all Dharmas and the unfathomable nature of the Buddha body: Dharmakaya.
This unfathomable real nature of the unconstructed is alluded to in the Heart Sutra with the following line: all dharmas are forms of/marked with emptiness- meaning there is something to Dharmas being discussed. Some also translate the Heart Sutra this way: the characteristics of the voidness of all Dharmas 'IS'...
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