Looking for formal "How things exist" analyses

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Rick
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Looking for formal "How things exist" analyses

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Looking for links to formal step-by-step analyses of how things exist, i.e. conventionally but not inherently. Here's an HHtDL example:
Let us illustrate this with the example of a rosary which has one hundred and eight beads. The whole, the one rosary, has one hundred and eight beads as its parts. The parts and the whole are [conventionally] different; yet, when the parts are eliminated, a rosary cannot be found. Because the rosary is one and its parts are many, the rosary is not the same as its parts. When the parts are eliminated, there is no rosary which exists separately; therefore, it is not inherently or fundamentally different from its parts. Because the rosary does not exist separate from its parts, it does not inherently depend on its parts, nor do the parts inherently depend on it. Also, the beads do not inherently belong to the rosary. Similarly, since the shape of the rosary is one of its qualities, this shape is not the rosary. Also, the collection of the beads and the string is the basis in dependence on which the rosary is imputed; therefore, it is not the rosary. If it is sought in this way, a rosary is unfindable as any of the seven extremes. Further, if the individual beads are sought as above, that is, as one with their parts, or different from their parts and so forth, they are unfindable as well. Furthermore, since forests, armies, continents, and countries are imputed to aggregations of many parts, when each is analysed as to whether it is this or not that, it is utterly unfindable. — HHtDL, Key to the Middle Way
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Re: Looking for formal "How things exist" analyses

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Four Point Analysis contained within LTK's insight chapter of the Middle Length Lam Rim. There are entire books (texts, commentaries, chapters, etc...)dedicated to this--one in particular is Jeffery Hopkins translation called Tsongkhapa's Final Exposition of Wisdom

See the Five (sometimes four) Madhyamka Reasonings

See the classic Chariot example

Study the basics of this and then study Tenets

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Re: Looking for formal "How things exist" analyses

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1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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Thanks, Shaun and Astus.
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