[Dalai Lama:] All things depend on other things. Nothing exists separately. I believe, by the way, that on this point contemporary science is moving along the same road as we are. We say this: on account of the influences they receive, things appear, exist, and disappear. Unceasingly. But they never exist by themselves.
pp. 240-241
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere Violence and Compassion
Doubleday, 1996
English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere.

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