suchness

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Precisely that suchness, that unspeakable, ineffable, intangible quality, which takes up no space at all and which never did.

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  • Precisely that suchness, that unspeakable, ineffable, intangible quality, which takes up no space at all and which never did. —  Danya Ruttenberg
  • I can be rejoice for the peace and joy that Christians find in their religion without out it taking anything away from my own branch in the one path of suchness. —  The Buddhist Blog
  • It's Sanskrit, and it means "essence of suchness" in Buddhism. —  Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition
  • By suchness (in Sanskrit bhûta-tathatâ_, in Chinese Chên ju_) is meant absolute truth as contrasted with the relative truth of ordinary experience. —  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
  • But when we perceive that both subject and object are unreal we also see that suchness is the one reality and from that point of view it may be regarded as the Dharma-kâya of all Buddhas. —  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
 

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