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<blockquote data-quote="ananda" data-source="post: 74559408" data-attributes="member: 283735"><p>All "personal" traits are clearly malleable in samsara of Pali Buddhism. It is a consequence of one of the three traits of samsaric existence, in this case <a href="http://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN35_82.html" target="_blank">anicca (impermanence)</a>. An endless stream of change is a core teaching, and though something can be "inborn", it is still subject to change.</p><p></p><p>Causality in Pali Buddhism is not inevitable. Past actions which produces present effects, can be modified through attention and will in the present, both which combine to produce future effects.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://suttacentral.net/sn46.2/en/sujato" target="_blank">Attention</a> is a key factor which provokes that change. This is the basis behind the Eightfold Path; in essence, attention is associated with View, which leads to Intention, Actions & Effort, Concentration, and thus, change, <a href="https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN3_62.html" target="_blank">hopefully towards greater skillfulness</a>. Nothing is unchanging or permanent except for nibbana; samsara is all about <em>change</em>, and the <em>suffering</em> that results when we cling to changing things we wish wouldn't change (identity with <em>self</em>).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ananda, post: 74559408, member: 283735"] All "personal" traits are clearly malleable in samsara of Pali Buddhism. It is a consequence of one of the three traits of samsaric existence, in this case [URL='http://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN35_82.html']anicca (impermanence)[/URL]. An endless stream of change is a core teaching, and though something can be "inborn", it is still subject to change. Causality in Pali Buddhism is not inevitable. Past actions which produces present effects, can be modified through attention and will in the present, both which combine to produce future effects. [URL='https://suttacentral.net/sn46.2/en/sujato']Attention[/URL] is a key factor which provokes that change. This is the basis behind the Eightfold Path; in essence, attention is associated with View, which leads to Intention, Actions & Effort, Concentration, and thus, change, [URL='https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN3_62.html']hopefully towards greater skillfulness[/URL]. Nothing is unchanging or permanent except for nibbana; samsara is all about [I]change[/I], and the [I]suffering[/I] that results when we cling to changing things we wish wouldn't change (identity with [I]self[/I]). [/QUOTE]
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