

Love & hate effort


Plus, minus, equal


Buddhism is nihilistic
Humans exist and live, have meaning, value and will, and the idea of non-self (anatta) only points to the fact that there is no independent essential soul/ego/self that is permanent.
Buddha taught that what we call “I” or “you” is a state consisting of physical and mental components (body, thoughts, consciousness, perception, emotions, etc) – and these components are impermanent.
Everything in a human being exists – a process that is complex and always changing – but nothing is permanent.

The fat smiling statue is Buddha
This monk lived around the year 1000 AD – a happy, humorous and fat monk with an eccentric lifestyle – therefore often called “The Laughing Buddha”. His name was Qici, he was nicknamed Budai, and belonged to Chan Buddhism in China.
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