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by ottomanbob 1662 days ago
Yes, kind of baffling name choice? I suspect they totally misunderstood the concept as a replenishing / refreshing cycle rather than the self-perpetuating nature of suffering.
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Or perhaps they are more to privvy to the depth and flavor of Buddhism than the average HN commentor. Nagarjuna says that samsara is nirvana and nirvana is samsara.

Similarly, Saraha says: “Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places… I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.”

In short, the gravy is all gravy.

Nagarjuna said some apparently-odd things. Startling statements like that can be used to help gain realisation of emptiness (rather like koans). He used reasoning to attack conceptual thought.