overnegation

noun

overnegation

noun

Etymology From over- + negation.

1

Buddhism, Lifestyle, Religion Excessive negation.

  • Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind.1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness, page 80:

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