If you say you can see the world as it is, period, then you are confused about your fallibility and biases right from the start. Or course, regardless...
I think there is an equivocation at the heart of this thread in the word 'matters' The word can mean 'is cared about' and the word can mean 'has impor...
This is true. But in a context (this thread) where the issue seems to be generally presented in binary terms (we know or don't know the world as it is...
It's a good point you are making and in other contexts I have tried to explain to critics of Buddhism (and in some cases supporters) that they are tre...
OK, your kid's getting treatment for childhood leukemia. You want your kid to live. Where's the sweet spot? This may seem snotty picking such an extre...
If there's nothing else in the universe, then we cannot treat them in any way, including in terms of identity. We aren't there. If we are there, we ar...
Well, maybe I accidentally made a good argument that Buddhism is hypocritical. Not my intention. Further I don't think they make an intellectual admon...
Certainly not off topic, no. Perhaps in this thread, but not in the forum.Yes, and the West tends to take a reductionist relation to such things: they...
Sure, and that's a different thing. That's when you are taking a stand and saying, I can question the masters. What I was reacting to was treating the...
I doubt it. I don't believe that Buddhism is being inconsistant on that issue. It is extremely focused on practices, every community and master I enco...
To me those statements just don't work well together. In the first you make a strong, unqualified statement, an ontological one, abot the world. In th...
Habit and context. As Wayfarer said, this is a philosophy forum (an online place where people come to chat about philosophical ideas, and generally wi...
The easy problem is actually a lot of problems, explaining all sorts of cognitive stuff/behaviors/responses. It might actually be harder to complete. ...
No, I was pointing out that people here were contradicting Buddhism while treating Buddhism as an authority. Not everyone in the thread but those I re...
1) if I look at the thread title it seems like the question of the thread 2) it may not be interesting to you, but I find it interesting that there is...
I think most of the overthinkers, which would be everyone in a way, know what they are getting into. They've thought about it. The idea that they are ...
I don't think I said it was. I do think there is a different view of the purpose of language in Zen. That often text or speeches are considered lss co...
The ones I have sat through - and I am quite sure this is standard practice - were 1) moving often from the abstract to the concrete and 2) led by exp...
I think animals have beliefs, babies too.By their behavior, just as I do with animals. And yes, through non-verbal communication also, which is a subs...
I certainly could have missed it but that wasn't what I was reacting to in the thread. It seemed to be trying to find out what the wise person meant v...
Yes, and if I'd said one cannot do both these things this would be a good point. The context of the thread is a Zen Story and what it means. In Zen yo...
Depends on the tradition and practices. In Buddhism, many of the forms, and nearly all of them in practice, there are warnings about being in your hea...
Yes, if the goal is in fact to head towards the goals of Buddhist practice. I agree with you here. It can lead to illusions of understanding things. W...
IOW we don't know everything about the world if there are things we don't know. Or universe, really, presumably. Or are you asserting we know nothing ...
He could indicate phenomena that lead him to believe there is a belief involved and which cannot be put into words. He doesn't have to say what the be...
The possible numbers are infinite, however, no mind could actually think of numbers that are so complicated (a specific google long number rather than...
I am not clear yet what Janus is doing, but one has to wonder why Marchesk thinks his posts relate to anything we say. I mean, if he doesn't see the w...
Who demanded this? We haven't discussed this, you and me, so I'll repeat. I don't think it's binary. My example earlier is of someone running through ...
Yes, I've noticed that also. I've acknowledged that in different words. Notice, for example, the word hallucination only makes sense when contrasted w...
Well, the guy who runs through the field, in the first post you responded to, is to some SERIOUS degree seeing that field as it is. Or he would not ma...
Ah, you mean we don't see ALL of reality. Or that we miss things. Or that our perception is limited. Well, sure. But I still think the statement that ...
Not only that, the conclusion undermines the premises. How does he know that robins see differently if no one, including him, sees the world? To know ...
I think that's generally a part of creativity. And via non-logical processes it something new is present. Is it completely new? Like not made ultimate...
Who is to know Buddhism is right or wrong? You're going to have to follow, to a great degree your intuition. I would suggest that anyone actually enga...
It's not binary. I mean, even color blind men can often run through a field with holes, grass lumps, and cow poop and thistles and reach the other sid...
I guess for me it's not science, it's people, often not scientists, who stray into philosophy not fully understanding either the science they are weil...
Which also wouldn't make my advice wrong. But here's the thing: I am not a Buddhist and don't share some of the core goals with Buddhism. I don't mind...
Well, I guess if you want to define the word 'creative' in such a way that it doesn't mean what most people mean, you can then say it doesn't happen (...
I understand the urge, but this is a bit like people here discussing whether quarks do X, without studying physics and math. I mean, sure, some people...
Though it doesn't really imitate it, even if the artist is trying to and many don't. It is inspired by something that already exists. I am not sure wh...
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