[Buddha-l] Dependent arising variants

Richard P. Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Tue Jan 31 20:00:46 MST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:15 -0500, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> Does anything that is born not die (much as many hope)? 

The last I heard, the human population of the world was over
6,000,000,000. Every one of them was alive. So that's a pretty strong
counter-example to the claim that everyone who is born dies.

> Death follows birth ineluctably and necessarily. Even Mark Twain
> admitted that. 

Cripes, Dan, you're not going to believe a smoker, are you?

-- 
Richard



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