Nagarjuna goes for the full monty on this one. Does samsara truly exist? If it did, it would have to have a cause. We certainly associate our suffering with causes. But, each of these causes would have to have a cause. This process never stops. If there were an "original cause" that thing itself would have to have a cause. So, in this way, we can see that samsara is beginningless. Without a beginning, how can it be and then end? Thus, it was never real in this first place. Convinced yet?
One could also approach this from the standpoint of those suffering in samsara. Which came first, the person suffering or samsara itself? Neither, and they didn't arise independently at the same time. They are dependently arisen mere appearance.
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