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But he is not right in deducing from this that "motion is discontinuous"; for, on the one hand, motion is, experientially, continuous, and as we have seen, "the river never stops"; while on the other, there is no motion really; and neither of these propositions, respectively relative and absolute, involves a discontinuity such as would be involved if we relapsed into the fallacy of thinking of a line as "made up of" points. Vasubandhu illustrates his position (as Riimi did) by the example of a moving light, which produces the appearance of a line tu vastu patitah", which I take to mean that time is a baseless mental construction, and a derivative of the moment.

266); "All that is born, whatever is beoome, is corruptible" (palokadhammam, S. 163). It is in this sense that "the Buddha looks upon the world in momentary (khan,ekhane) dissolution" (Dpvs. 1. 16)9. "Four and eighty thousand aeons the Maruts abide, and yet abide not even for so long as for the sequence of two thoughts... In the present lives the world, and with the break-up of a thought it dies (paccuppanena jivati cittabhahga mato loke) lo... From the unseen come forth born beings, and broken-up pass into the unseen; like a flash of lightning in the ether they arise and pass away" (Vism.

Silence is the "Middle Way" between affirmation and negation; and corresponds to that "untold" (anakkhaiam,Dh. 218, avyakatam,S. 4. ) which the Buddha, for all that he "holds nothing back", cannot reveal for lack of any "speechway" (vidapatha). Silence is a "Middle Way" between affirmationand negation; and what is probably the oldest text on Silence in this sense is to be found in the verses quoted in AA. 2. 3. 8, v. 3: 41 42 54 De la Vallee Poussin43 discusses ksana (1) as a measure of time and (2) as the limiting minimium of "Of speech, that which is 'yes' and which is 'no'...

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