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Truly existent phenomena also could not have low-strength impermanence while they were occurring and high-strength impermanence when they were ending, because if they were truly existently of low-strength impermanence, that could never change.
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But if something is truly existently occuring, it must do that forever and so could never change into being something no longer occuring, thus could not be impermanent.
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If the shape and the color of a vase are truly existently different, how could the visual cognition of the color of a vase also cognize the shape?
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Also, phenomena could not be both truly existently occurring and at the same time impermanent, because the two characteristics would contradict each other.
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But, if time truly existently had no occurring, there could be no end to its not occurring and so nothing could ever occur or happen.
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If a truly existent time-already-passed were to be impermanent and at some time have to pass away, how could something truly existently already-passed pass away again?
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His principles were, commercial prosperity co-existently with perfect and profound agricultural contentment; but short of this he would never stop.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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If, a vase arose as truly existently cognizable from its own side, there would be no need for it to be connected with the truly existent universal category of cognizability, which the Nyaya-Vaisheshikas assert as necessary for cognition; the vase would already be cognizable.
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But, if a vase arose as truly existently uncognizable, then it could not be cognized even it were connected to such a universal category.
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Although commonsense objects appear to be truly existent entities (unimputed, not mentally fabricated) and “truly existently” to fit into certain categories, they are devoid of this fabricated manner of existence.
The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena: Non-Gelug Presentation 2006
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