CONCEPTUALIZAREA ABUZIVĂ A FLUXULUI CAUZAL AMORF (PRATīTYASAMUTPĀDA, PARATANTRASVABHĀVA), ÎN BUDHISMUL YOGĀCĀRA
Language as Fanciful Construction. The Abusive Imposition of Conceptual- Linguistic Identities (Parikalpitasvabhāva) onto the Conditional Flow (Paratantrasvabhāva), in Yogācāra Buddhism.

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the relationshipbetween the two levels of phenomenal existence accepted by Yogācāra Buddhism: theconceptual and linguistic sphere, specific to human experience, and the all-encompassingconditional flow. Unlike other early tenets of Mahāyāna, Yogācāra has a „softer”approach to reality, considering the conditional flow as real, as a natural adjunct of theultimate reality (parini􀊘pannasvabhāva). Devoid of any objective reality is only thelevel of conceptual constructs, which refer to nothing at all, neither to the absolutereality nor to the conditional flow. They simply make up a world of their own, stirredby the Karmic energy; within this purely subjective constructed world, the entire humandrama takes place. All the painful features of human life have nothing to do withanything existing outside of the individual subject but are simply fanciful creations ofhuman mind. The objectively existing conditional flow is not only devoid of anyexistentialistic characteristic but lacks any determination whatsoever, being simply anamorphous stream of momentary apparitions, where nothing ever acquires any determinedidentity, as a particular „entity” (bhāva).The voidness (śūnyatā) of Yogācāra Buddhism is „softer” than in other schoolsof Mahāyāna, being rather a „relational” void. It is not equated with nothingness butonly with the absence of the claimed constructed characteristics from the realconditional flow.

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