suchness
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- noun
- Formal
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talidad
- 40. By 1987, in the last chapter of Plurality and Ambiguity, he speaks of religions in the plural and of "Ultimate Reality" variously named "Emptiness, the One, God, Suchness, Nature, the Many."
It's like I you're basically like hurling thoughts at it, but it's not removing the sort of the the the suchness of it.
- It's like I you're basically like hurling thoughts at it, but it's not removing the sort of the the the suchness of it.
Examples
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Sunyata is dynamic, "a pure and unceasing function of self-emptying, making self and others manifest in their suchness.
Academic text (1999) -
The suchness of luminosity unborn and undying.
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-So... if you are really Time itself, yourself, or whatever suchness you claim...
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And as we abide in that elusive "suchness" which permeates the moment itself, we begin to learn a new way of being with things.
Academic text (1990) -
Presence, suchness, thingness.
Blog text (22) -
From English translations of Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, and other languages, we have added to our vocabulary words like "thusness," "suchness," and "just-so-ness."
Academic text (1990) -
Yet this suchness is nothing that could be essentially stabilized, and as a matter of fact, there is no such thing as a single singularity. (In the same fashion, there is not 'a' multiple; there are only multiplicities).
Academic text (2017) -
However, if you don't believe the hype that zen makes people "clear" (more cult speak) but makes for radical acceptance of people and the world in their suchness, a zen center is just a group of flawed people practicing together, which is quite beautiful.
Blog text (2) -
And Buddhism states that the sense of separate selfhood is illusory (the anatta doctrine), and therefore that what we truly are is nondifferent from existence itself (nirvana, the void, pure consciousness, suchness, etc.).
Academic text (1990) -
In meditation, we aim to appreciate the world in its suchness, without judgment or alteration.
Synonyms
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The true nature of things as they really are
Surface Forms
Morphology
suchness = such (semi-transparent) = such + ness
The word is formed by the transparent noun-forming suffix '-ness' on 'such', but 'suchness' is often used as a technical/philosophical term whose specific sense ('essential nature') may not be obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Suchness comes from such ('like that') plus the noun ending -ness ('state'), the same ending you see in happiness. So suchness means the 'state of being like that', which helps explain why it refers to the true or essential nature of something.