💧 Svabhāva

= "intrinsic nature"

What is intrinsic nature?

  • E.g. a bike has no intrinsic nature, because it “disappears” under analysis (inspecting it’s parts, taking it apart)
    • intrinsic nature does not disappear under analysis
    • e.g. water has intrinsic nature (or so they thought back in the early days of Buddhism, when atoms were unknown)

What has intrinsic nature?