Grasping for Impossible Existence

An overview of the various Indian tenet systems’ view on how we view ourselves as persons in relation to the samsara-perpetuating five aggregates.

By applying methods for developing patience, we can avoid the problems that anger causes.

Gelug Prasangika’s presentation of coarse disturbing emotions, which are based on grasping for a self-sufficiently knowable “me,” and the underlying subtle disturbing emotions, which are based solely on the automatically-arising grasping for self-established existence.

Nonexistent phenomena can be objects of cognition, but not objects of valid cognition, only of distorted cognition.