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, and thus it is an illusion. It is the unreal accumulation and arising of all dharmas which are ultimately without owner, i.e, without self-nature. What is real is our Buddha-nature, and when the mind stops all illusions, that is our Buddha-nature revealed, and which is unchanging and can give rise to all changing forms and phenomena. All illusions are also created from the real mind, which is Buddha-Nature (the Buddha-nature is either real or unreal - it is real but on enlightenment one will not be attached to the concept of real, hence it is neither real nor unreal). The ultimate truth is unfathomable and beyond language and duality; one has to experience it to understand it, but in short, all beings are created by their own mind.

Amituofo