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“Without a mysterious cause”
The truth which the Buddha taught requires nothing beyond our actual experience, here & now.
This site tries out new language for the truths that Siddattha Gotama, the Buddha, taught. It aims to be consistent with his teaching, without contradicting our enormous progress in natural science: to explain the truth of human experience as Gotama did, "without a mysterious cause.” 1
Animitta in the Pāli language of early Buddhist texts is usually translated as “signless,” or “unconditioned,” one of a few words used as synonyms for nibbāna: freedom from psychological & spiritual suffering. The goal is to articulate the teachings of Gotama, as free as possible from the mythologies & metaphysics of cultures through which those teachings have passed.
Animitta in the Pāli language of early Buddhist texts is usually translated as “signless,” or “unconditioned,” one of a few words used as synonyms for nibbāna: freedom from psychological & spiritual suffering. The goal is to articulate the teachings of Gotama, as free as possible from the mythologies & metaphysics of cultures through which those teachings have passed.
1. Another translation of animitta, by the late Prof. David Kalupahana, is "without a mysterious cause."