Svabhava
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Oct 30, 2026
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
Do the Dhammas, those kinds of atoms, do they have a Swabhava, a nature of its own, an essence of its own or not? And in ancient Buddhism, it was accepted.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
Maybe they have a Svabhava nature of its own.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
Later on, Nagarjuna says, no, they're empty.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
Empty is every phenomenon.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
But she also quotes the word Svabhavat.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
Svabhavat.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
And that's the ablative singular.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
from its own nature.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, uh, in Buddhist psychology, we may talk about a third part which serve as a foundation of both.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
"" Svabhava, svabhava bhaga.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, uh, for this, uh, example, we can liken, liken it to the, the substance of the paper, the paste that is made with, uh, trees.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's the third.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's no ding and sik.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Svabhava.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Self-nature.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So the eyes arise without substance, without self-nature.
Krishna's MercyHOST
The One with the Mourning of the Lost Object by Krishna's Mercy Quote, Therefore a person should worship work, karma itself, in accordance with their own nature and their own work.
Krishna's MercyHOST
That by which one may live easily is indeed their deity.
Krishna's MercyHOST
Lord Krishna, Srimad Bhagavatam, 1024-18 Whatever way that works.
Krishna's MercyHOST
aham evasam evagre, nanyad yat sad asat param, paschad aham yad etaccha, yo vashishyetaso asmya aham.
Krishna's MercyHOST
Quote, Brahma, it is I, the personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation when there was nothing but Myself.
Krishna's MercyHOST
Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation.
Krishna's MercyHOST
That which you see now is also I, the personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the personality of Godhead.
Krishna's MercyHOST
Tremendan McBinster, 2933 The people of the world are otherwise in the dark.
Proven ParadoxHOST
At the time of Nagarjuna's life, many Buddhists accepted the truths of sunyata and anatman, but they were backsliding into arguing that although things were empty and impermanent, they still possessed an intrinsic nature.
Proven ParadoxHOST
We may want to call this an Atman or a capital S self, but they called it Svabhava, which is an incredibly hard word for me to say.
Proven ParadoxHOST
The Buddhist schools that held to this philosophy argued that although things are impermanent, they are substantively real when they occur.
Proven ParadoxHOST
They have an irrefutable essence in the stream of reality.
Proven ParadoxHOST
Its function as holding or transporting liquids doesn't define its cup-ness.
Proven ParadoxHOST
This is a very subtle and perhaps frustrating idea, especially since we've only ever discussed it from Nagarjuna's side previously.
Proven ParadoxHOST
In the end, Nagarjuna argued in like fashion with the other Mahayana sutras that all things, even nirvana and Buddhahood, are illusory and fleeting small dharmas, and any attempt to claim or impose a substantial realness onto them is only the result of us having a deluded craving for a capital S self in ourselves and then projecting that onto things in reality and naming it something else like Svabhava.
Proven ParadoxHOST
This whole debate is captured in his famous treatise, the Mulla Majjamaka Karika, or the Verses on the Roots of the Middle Way.
Kavita JhaveriHOST
Right?
SamyukthaGUEST
Yeah, there's actually a very beautiful thing you had said, was about aligning our Dharma with our Swabhava.
Sahana SinghGUEST
Hmm.
SamyukthaGUEST
Is that how...
SamyukthaGUEST
Is that what it was?
Sahana SinghGUEST
Yes, that's what it is.
SamyukthaGUEST
And so our Swabhava is something that's intrinsic to us.
Sahana SinghGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
Is it free will or Papa punya? What is commit-- making them to commit, act to actions? What is the reason for people to behave and act differently? Although they may be from the same family, or they, they may be twins.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
Bhagavan says, "Sadrsham cheshtate svasyah prakrteh jnanavan api." Even a Jnana, even a Jnani acts according to his Swabhava.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
Only Swabhava determines the actions.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
And Bhagavan himself says, "Nigrahah kim karishyati?" What will restraint do? How can we stop that? A person acting according to his Swabhava, how can we stop that? We cannot.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
Then immediately he added, in Sloka...
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
This is Sloka 33.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
These two we saw in detail.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
And what did we see here? He said...
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She's empty of a separate existence, empty of self-nature.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Svabhava.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When we say that things are empty, it means they are empty of a separate existence.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They are empty of self-nature, empty of own being.