10 questions to be set aside
(not answered, because they are not important to the goal):
- The cosmos is eternal
- The cosmos is not eternal
- The cosmos is finite
- The cosmos is infinite
- The soul/mind/consciousness and the body are the same 6. The soul/mind/consciousness is one thing and the body another
- After death a Tathagata exists
- After death a Tathagata does not exist
- After death a Tathagata both exists and does not exist
- After death a Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist
(from Majjhima Nikaya 63)