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n. - The act of starting something for the first time; An event that is a beginning.

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  • Flat-rate Internet access call origination (FRIACO)
  • Each reality or entity continuously undergoes countless changes known as origination and destruction.
  • In order to understand the subtle emptiness, one must understand the subtle dependent origination, that is, the dependent designation.
  • Rather than obstructing the emergence of things, this emptiness permits it through their interdependent origination, which is the meaning of emptiness.
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