Adventitiousness
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Adventitious has various meanings in various disciplines and in general usage.
Adventitious is from the Latin root advenire, meaning "to come to" and in English the meanings tend to have connections to "accidental/ casual occurrence", "arising from without; supervenient, accidental, casual".
People sometimes speak of an event or occurrence as being "random", when the word "adventitious", or perhaps "accidental", might be more strictly correct.
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Religion
The Dalai Lama describes the autopilot thoughtstreams as adventitious, in a speech about Rigpa awareness: "However, this primordial quality of buddhahood is obscured by adventitious mental factors, our afflictions and other thought processes."
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