It is a core principle of the Buddha's teaching and the first of the three marks of existence; the other two being dukkha, which stands for unsatisfactoriness or suffering, and anatta, the doctrine of non-self.
The mark of our existence is need, or the non-acceptance of neutral Being.
One answer which is mooted is that the capacity to act or be acted upon is the distinctive mark of real existence or 'that which is.' The Stoics accept this criterion and add the rider that only bodies can act or be acted upon.
Not so long ago, knowing about the existence of Intrade was a mark of being in the vanguard.
In November 2011, Open Babel will mark 10 years of existence as an independent project, and for the first time, we have discussed its development and features.
If this is not forthcoming, there is the strong counter-intuition that zero marks the absence of existence; and no number of absent or non-existent things or quantities makes a present, existent thing or quantity.
The crisis in Attawapiskat came to light amid an ongoing campaign to abolish the Indian Act, a document that marked 140 years of existence this week and which puts the Canadian government in control of most aspects of First Nation life.
On a floundering Mukhorty, Brekhunov travels in smaller circles across a hostile, almost alien landscape, coming twice to a clump of wormwood – "growing on a boundary … desperately tossing about under the pressure of the wind" – that appears to mark the grim border of existence.
