Between 2009 and January 2014, veteran homelessness dropped 33percentt, including a 42percentt reduction in veterans who were living unsheltered (as opposed to staying in impermanent housing conditions, such as shelters).
Insofar as their epistemic mode is concerned, conditioned and impermanent phenomena are distinct and contrasting.
They have a single-nature relationship such that, if one did not exist, neither could the other, just like being conditioned and impermanent".
The ontological identity between being conditioned and being impermanent does not imply identity in all and every respect.
Gelug argues that the relationship between the two truths, therefore, the two natures, is akin to the relationship between being conditioned and being impermanent.
Empty alone is the conventionality, if one of them does not exist, neither will the other, like being conditioned and being impermanent".
(Tsongkhapa 1984b: 176–77) The way in which the two truths are related is thus analogous to the relationship between being conditioned and being impermanent.
Therefore, like the case of being conditioned and being impermanent, the relation between the two truths is demonstrated as one of a single ontological identity.
For centuries before Vasubandhu, Buddhist philosophers of the Sarvāstivādin tradition had believed in, and argued for, the doctrine of universal momentariness.[24] This view was a Buddhist scholastic interpretation and expression of the Buddha's doctrine that all things in the world of ordinary beings were subject to causes and conditions, and therefore impermanent.
The increasingly detailed enumerations of dharmas demonstrate that no essence or independent self could be found in any phenomenon or its constituents, since all aspects of experience are impermanent, arising and passing away subject to numerous causes and conditions.
To be impermanent is already to also be permanent there is no other impermanence.
