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Originally Posted by BlueSky
To me that takes away from what he said. It seems to separate the ever changing individuality from the mind or body for that fact.
His words say to me that while everything is impermanent, that impermanence is eternal.
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If we think eternity is way of enduring time forever, then no, because no substance endures from one moment to the next. What we call an individual is based on a volitional entity, but in Buddhist philosophy, volition 'constructs' the entity in a process of re-birth, which is different to Christian philosophy which posits an eternal volitional entity.