Buddhism: The Doctrine of Awakening

Excerpts from the work of julius evola

Buddhism proceeds to analyize this [samsaric] consciousness and to determine the 'truth' corresponding to it, summarized in the theory of universal impermanence and insubstantiality (anatta).

The Buddhist term designating a particular reality or individual life or phenomenon is khanda or santana. 'Khanda' literally means 'a group', 'a heap'-to be understood as an aggregation- and santana means 'current'.

In the flux of becoming there form vortices or currents of psychophysical elements and of allied states -called dhamma- which persist as long as the conditions and the force remain that have made them come together and pile up.

After this they dissolve and, in their becoming (samsara) they form similar conglomerations elsewhere, no less contingent than the preceding ones.

All things are without individuality or substance (sabbe dhamma anatta 'ti) (Dhammapada 277,279)

In samsara there are only conditioned states of existence and consciousness.