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The Innumerable Meanings Sutra, gold, colour on blue paper, 13-14th century, Japan This is the first chapter of the Innumerable Meanings Sūtra . It begins with the Buddha who is staying at the City of Royal Palaces on Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa, or Vulture Peak , with a great assemblage of twelve thousand bhikṣus (monks), eighty thousand ...
The Jain upanga āgama Surya Prajnapti (c. 400 BC) classifies all numbers into three sets: enumerable, innumerable, and infinite. Each of these was further subdivided into three orders: Enumerable: lowest, intermediate and highest; Innumerable: nearly innumerable, truly innumerable and innumerably innumerable
Cardinal numbers define the size of sets, meaning how many members they contain, and can be standardized by choosing the first ordinal number of a certain size to represent the cardinal number of that size. The smallest ordinal infinity is that of the positive integers, and any set which has the cardinality of the integers is countably infinite.
While according to Mookerji, understanding the meaning (vedarthajnana [84] or artha-bodha [85] [note 12]) of the words of the Vedas was part of the Vedic learning, [85] Holdrege and other Indologists [86] have noted that in the transmission of the Samhitas, the emphasis is on the phonology of the sounds and not on the meaning of the mantras.
This implies that the multiverses of Levels I, II, and III are, in fact, the same thing. This hypothesis is referred to as "Multiverse = Quantum Many Worlds". According to Yasunori Nomura, this quantum multiverse is static, and time is a simple illusion. [69] Another version of the many-worlds idea is H. Dieter Zeh's many-minds interpretation.
Many readings argue that Nietzsche was not attempting to make a cosmological or theoretical claim i.e. saying that eternal recurrence is a true statement about how the world works. Instead, the emotional reaction to the thought experiment serves to reveal whether one is living life to the best. [25]
Many among us, however, might know that multitasking isn’t the ticket but insist upon doing it anyway. “Some people find multitasking to be more stimulating than solo-tasking,” says ...
Gandharan relief depicting the ascetic Megha (Shakyamuni in a past life) prostrate before the past Buddha Dīpaṅkara, c. 2nd century CE (Gandhara, Swat Valley)The Bodhisattva vow is a vow (Sanskrit: praṇidhāna, lit. aspiration or resolution) taken by some Mahāyāna Buddhists to achieve full buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings.