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Tathata ( Sanskrit तथाता ''tathātā'') is variously translated as thusness, suchness, or the true nature of things. It is a central concept in Buddhism and is used to refer to the common underlying nature of things. It is thought of as being the ultimate nature of all things, as opposed to the names invented by human beings to distinguish earthly forms and objects. In the context of Buddhism , tathata is used to refer to the concept that although there exist multiple Buddhas, they ultimately all express the same, singular Buddha essence. As such, Budda referred to himself as Tathagata , which may be interpreted as "coming-from-thusness". Alternatively, the philosopher Alan Watts elaborated on this theme from a scientific perspective, stating that when one abandons the Western notion of "named forms" (Nama-rupa in Sanskrit), or naming every individual component of the universe (decreasing in scale from materials to molecules to atoms to subatomic particles, etc.) you begin to see everything in our universe is composed of the same Tathata (which he described as a quantum mechanical fluctuation or what is in the present era conceived of as Wheeler's Quantum Foam ). |
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