Does Buddhism hold that the nature of the universe is to create?

I would prefer answers from people who have actually studied Buddhism; not the westernized, hippie version of Buddhism. Not from "Buddhism for Dummies" or reading a wiki page. I'll be able to tell.





Thanks in advance!|||That is one of the core problems in Buddhism, a skeptic runs into it early. Buddhists are very laid back, and seek peace, not creation. They do however teach the cessation of suffering which entails a power of creation, as all action does, but this creation is suppressed by liberation into nothing, which may cease suffering (in some but not all cases) but dramatically puts creation power on hold.





Hinduism is for me the only religion which promotes an increase in creation power, and thus thinks the nature of the universe is to create. Hindu art, spirituality, and deity creation is very indicative of this.





Buddhism is about harmony with nature, and if you can understand this harmony as a Buddhist, by studying the real meaning of dependent arising, you may run into the nature of the butterfly present in all things, and so it is not impossible for a Buddhist not to consecrate a power of "creation."





If you are interested in understanding nature as a creation of itself I would suggest reading James Gardner, and those that he associates with.|||buddhism is just a modification of brahmanism(which is what the original name of hinduism was)


nature of the universe is not creation but flow. think of what preceded everything as void of every quality and then that existent things just overflowing out of it. no intention to create.


ocean and the wave analogy. the wave is not different from the ocean but only a movement of the ocean.


there are brilliant minds in both hinduism and buddhism(and western neoplatonic tradition) who have elaborated on this stuff(how and why it all happened) and supposedly knew this information from direct experiential knowledge received in deep samadhi meditation.|||I quite frankly knows nothing of Buddhism but you said that you'd only prefer answers from real Buddhists, which infers that others are allowed to respond.


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The answer I offer is scientific. I can tell you of the Chaos Theory and the Lavoisier theory but only if you can be bothered with it. I don't want to start a big paragraph if you're not interested so just say a yes or no in a PS.





In short, it would seem the Universe is bound by a law of "Evolutive" Degeneration.


I put Evolutive in between brackets because it not a word sanctioned by dictionaries yet.|||The Buddha taught only about the suffering in life, and the cessation of that suffering. So the Buddha's teachings say nothing about what you ask.





There may be Buddhist commentaries added at a later date that give you the information you want.|||theravada or mahayana?