Sassatavada (Pali), alsośāśvata-dṛṣṭi (Sanskrit), usually translated "eternalism", is a kind of thinking rejected by the Buddha in thenikayas (andagamas). One example of it is the belief that the individual has an unchangingself. Views of this kind were held at the Buddha's time by a variety of groups.
The Buddha rejected this and the opposite concept ofucchedavada (annihilationism) on both logical and epistemic grounds. He proposed aMiddle Way between these extremes, relying not onontology but oncausality.
Eternalism included the belief that the extinction of things means their latency and the production of things means their manifestation — this violates the Buddha's principle of the middle way.[1]
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