The Central Conception of Buddhism and the Meaning of the Word "Dharma" c19.6

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c19.6

But are this past and this future really existent or not? If they are, it would follow that the elementary forces (*saṃskāra*) (which are active in the process of life) must be permanent (i.e. immovable), since they exist through all time. If they are not, how is it to be explained that a man is attracted to (objects past and future) by such (passion as he experienced formerly, or will be subject to in future)?

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