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Originally Posted by Silver
You may be misunderstanding both dependent origination and emptiness. Some people think accepting that we all get sick, hurt and die is focusing on the negative. Accepting reality isn't focusing on negative. They also apparently think we focus entirely on rebirth, which is an easy mistake to make, especially if your experience comes from pop culture.
The "existence has a cause and that cause is clinging to existence" doesn't even make sense to me.
The only thing I can think is that you are talking about the cycle of rebirth, that we are stuck being reborn again and again because we cling to life/existence. Which in a way isn't entirely incorrect, but yeah, major misunderstanding and leaving out some very big parts of those teachings.
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Not all Buddhist traditions believe in rebirth which complicates things even more
Some Zen traditions believe that rebirth happens from moment to moment.