Ground of Being

[WokeBloke]

Does anybody share the view that the ground of being itself is unfixed? Essentially the very nature of existence is change. Or the idea that there is no unchanging reality.

 

Changeless = Death

Changing = Life

[silene]

@WokeBloke  Have you found a 'ground' of being? I haven't myself.  I get to a self-referencing paradox along the lines of; if everything is changeable, that should include the idea that "everything is changeable". The truth of change must itself change, and become untrue! 

[WelcometoReality]

8 hours ago, WokeBloke said:

Does anybody share the view that the ground of being itself is unfixed? Essentially the very nature of existence is change. Or the idea that there is no unchanging reality.

 

Changeless = Death

Changing = Life

Yes existence is always changing but isn't there something about you that hasn't changed? Something that is the same now as when you were a child for example?

[Tim R]

Being is neither changing nor fixed.

[silene]

From the Buddhist pov, it doesn't say that everything or the whole of existence is impermanent anyway. Just 'conditioned phenomena' are impermanent (however you end up defining that). So it leaves space for an unconditioned existence, presumably nirvana, which is something else (like permanent, or neither permanent nor impermanent). 

[Nahm]

Meditation. 

[Breakingthewall]

existence is infinite so it changes and doesn't change. it changes apparently, but really it is already everything that could be or change, it is total and the totality is immutableb ecause it encompasses all possible mutation