Oh, I see. A teacher must earn faer keep too. Is there no possibility of doing koan practice one one's own - go solo with koans so to speak? Why don't...
Which person who's ever gone to high school can forget reading about the great Greek mathematician Archimedes running stark-naked and dripping wet thr...
A couple of things: 1. I have this suspicion that when the Buddha compared the dhamma to a raft to be gotten rid of after Buddhahood he didn't mean it...
That's what Richard Dawkins believes. Did you read his book, The Devil's Chaplain? In it he suggests a simple test for complexity - if the number of w...
If everything were red, its opposite wouldn't be something not-red but would be nothing. An intriguing implication of this would be the possibility th...
You're welcome. This is most unfortunate. I tried searching for the PDF on Yang Yi (974 - 1020) sometimes written Yang I but no luck. I'm afraid you'l...
Well, we're supposed to be the brand-new species, just 2 - 3 million years old and there's a reason I suppose why the primitive parts of our brains ar...
I like Claude Shannon's take on information and it gibes with what @"unenlightened" once edified me on. The intriguing coincidence of having invited a...
With respect due to the great David Hume, what he said can only be the result of his reason putting 2 and 2 together regarding its relationship with t...
I like where you're taking this but, to offer a slightly different perspective, I suggest you look at it from a dynamic as opposed to a static point o...
As far as I can tell, there seems to be a slight confusion regarding language implicit in the question. If I'm anywhere near the ballpark, the assumpt...
I did comment on this take on the dhamma and how it parallels Judgement Day or The End Of Days - in both cases we arrive at our destination, no? But y...
By the way, what do you know about this Yang Yi (born 947 AD - died 1020 AD) character, reportedly a Song Court official who, according to an article ...
What about the Abrahamic triad's notion of The End Of Days otherwise known as Judgment Day? There seems to be this sense of finality, closure, and com...
Thanks for the :up: You're very generous with your compliments :smile: I like your interpretation of the dhamma as a raft, to be used to cross the oce...
Well, in my humble opinion, the question has its roots in the perceived difficulty in coming to terms with material-immaterial interaction but that's ...
@"Wayfarer" I have this conception of the world of ideas being like houses in a quaint village. A person, if either as an honored guest or a passing b...
Like my father keeps reminding me, practice what you preach and were I there in their company when all this transpired I would've loved to point a fin...
My first encounter with dualism was precisely with this question: how does an immaterial mind interact with the material? Frankly speaking, the questi...
Now that you mention imagination, the creator of paraconsistent logic - Nicolai A. Vasiliyev - was supposed to have called his logic "imaginary". The ...
You're right in saying that God and the Devil are opposites - yin and yang in a manner of speaking. However, the will to unify is a divine directive a...
The Devil, as they say, is in the details. Thus, it seems, god must be in the rought outline/general overview and that's when contradictions crawl out...
This, I believe, is incorrect. When we have an unproved or shaky assumption, the antithesis of the thesis using that assumption issues forth. Look at ...
Never heard of David Lynch though his name has a familiar ring to it. Anyway, I have a theory regarding this business about reality being an illusion....
Headshot! Sniper! I'm now sprawled on the ground with a gaping hole in my skull, bits and pieces of brain matter everywhere, a halo of blood circles m...
Perhaps the creative aspect of realistic art is in the method and not in the result. Too, there's the matter of not everybody being able to draw and p...
Suppose the maximum potential energy of dominoes is 10 joules and when standing upright lengthwise they're in metastable state of 6 joules. If the kin...
That's the mistake we make. It all depends on how you interpret the meaning of not-x where x = anything (individuals to categories). In fact, it looks...
I'm confused at this point. There's the notion of out-of-our-control proclivities/tendencies/preferences that has everything to do with free will, spe...
Suppose the univeraal set U = A u B Well, suppose A = {x, y} and B = {v, w} Suppose N = Nothing. So, { } = {N} {x} is a subset of A and x is an elemen...
That's not just ironic, it's a contradiction. Let's be pragmatic here, shall we? The human condition either already is or is on the verge of becoming ...
As far as I can tell, nothing is, as is generally understood, not a thing. Suppose, now that there's a world with only two objects viz. X and Y and th...
This statement has the seeds of a paradox. I can't quite put my finger on it though. The topic is beauty. You not only have something truthful to say ...
So, what's infinity + 1? How does your answer, which must be infinity, square with the answer to 2 + 1? Infinity DOES NOT COMPUTE! What's 1 ÷ infinity...
I think I have it figured out. Emotivism leads to relativism, relativism leads to nihilism, nihilism leads to pragmatism, pragmatism leads to egoism, ...
What about pi and e? I've made the distinction computable irrationals and noncomputable irrationals thinking that the former could be reduced to an al...
What do you mean? Any point on the well-known number line exist in the same metaphysical sense as another point. There's e and there's pi and there's ...
I took a look at the wikipedia page on the domino effect. The entire phenomenon is based on what they call meta-stable states and my hunch is, as the ...
It gets harder to topple the next domino if the dominos increase in size until one doesn't fall over and the causal chain breaks. A chain reaction wil...
A couple of things regarding the wisdom-ignorance duo in relation to god 1. Socratic Paradox 2. God Of The Gaps It's a pet theory of mine and maybe co...
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