own-being

Although followers of the Hinayana, like followers of the Mahayana, realize that phenomena are devoid of own-being, it is not the case that there is no difference at all between the Hinayana and the Mahayana.

Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

Although followers of the Hinayana, like followers of the Mahayana, realize that phenomena are devoid of own-being, it is not the case that there is no difference at all between the Hinayana and the Mahayana.

Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

Although followers of the Hinayana, like followers of the Mahayana, realize that phenomena are devoid of own-being, it is not the case that there is no difference at all between the Hinayana and the Mahayana.

Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

Although followers of the Hinayana, like followers of the Mahayana, realize that phenomena are devoid of own-being, it is not the case that there is no difference at all between the Hinayana and the Mahayana.

Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

Thus, O Sariputra, all dharmas [teachings] are empty of own-being, are without marks; they are neither produced nor stopped, neither defiled nor immaculate, neither deficient nor complete.

Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007

Awakening to the emptiness of all things, to their lack of substantial own-being or egoity (Japanese: shogyômuga), thus frees one both from an ego-centered and reified view of things, and from the illusion of the substantial ego itself.

The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

Picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children-those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own-being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder!

Planet Atheism 2009

This denial of existence does not refer directly to the characterized entity as such, but to its supposed own-being or essence (svabhâva).

Joseph S. O'Leary homepage 2009

“interdependent origination” (Sanskrit: pratîtya-samutpâda; Japanese: engi), and they are therefore “empty” of any independent substantial self-nature or “own-being” (Sanskrit: svabhâva).

The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

Much more problematic is the situation once the practitioner operates in the doctrinal framework of the Mahâyâna tradition, and hence does not accept the existence of discrete momentary conditioned entities that have, despite their temporal and spatial minuteness, an innate own-being (svabhâva) "(Rospatt 2004: 82).

Joseph S. O'Leary homepage 2009