FAQ: So who created humans in all of their complexity? 

In the Ten Wholesome Ways of Actions Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha told us that all beings are made by their mind, brought about by wholesome or unwholesome bodily, verbal and mental actions, which form their karma. So each being is created by their own mind, yet this mind is formless, it cannot be grasped or perceived, thus it is an illusion  - it is the unreal accumulation and arising of all dharmas which are ultimately without owner, without the self-nature. What is real is our Buddha-nature, when the mind stops all illusion, that is our Buddha-nature, unchanged, can give rise to all forms and phenomena, all the illusions are also created from the real mind (Buddha-nature, the Buddha-nature is either real nor unreal - it is real but one will not be attached to the concept of real either, hence it is neither real nor unreal). The ultimate truth is unfathomable, one has to experience it to understand, but in short, all beings are created by their own mind. Amituofo 


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FAQ: What I don’t understand about the end goal of Buddhism is why we would want to give up the senses