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@yeshe.tenley

. Nothing substantial ceases because nothing substantial ever arose

It is enough that something insubstantially ceased because it insubstantially arose and their insubstantial causes ceased.

Bhikkhu Bodhi on Nibbāna

We’re still talking past one another. I never said there are really existing things. I just think your language about “existence” is overly strict, and also alien to the early texts, where temporary phenomena do “exist” in a non-“real”, non-inherent way. All that exists (in experience) are dependently originated processes, not independently, truly existing things. And when these processes cease, it is not annihilation because no thing was destroyed. Your logical step from nothingness to anni…

@yeshe.tenley

I see the appearance of aggregates galore and beings cycling

Because you haven’t die as an arahant yet.