I think you're right. Western ethnocentrism wanting to call the shots. EDIT: Not to deflect my own culpability, which includes the above plus wishful ...
I agree with this as problematic. Do you think (as i recall being led to believe) that "sophisticated" Mahayana practitioners/thinkers sweep the reinc...
I completely do. But not because of a strictly realist or empirical word view. Rather, because once one considers that humans experience "unnaturally"...
Fair point. I'm not sure that I've ready philosophy in the spirit of "love with all of my heart soul and might." There might be something to that; but...
Except, in the case of so called Karma equilibrium is not a measured balance between, say, good and bad. Rather, it is in detachment from judgements c...
I don't disagree with your depiction. To serve it back, in case I misunderstand: Karma presents to us in History as a socio-cultural phenomenon, an "a...
I do not think so. If Karma is real, it's basis is not physical. It is not a Law imposed from the outside. Rather, if it is real, it stems from the ob...
Darn. I know what I said. But I offer and seek clarifications . Exactly. I acknowledge that jungle gym we have to traverse. Here, in this human world,...
Interesting. Maybe that's how I'm taking "essence." Mabe you're suggesting the condition of possibility precedes the essence? I'll leave it to you if ...
Generally, it's very clear to me that the liberties I'm taking far exceed my knowledge. I'm just exploring and, as I've said before, appreciate your e...
Apodictic only applies within the field in which both ethics and logic sprouted. Both are "apodictic" in varying degrees. First, you use "coercive/ins...
But how? I think H² aimed for pure being, but, to put it plainly, couldn't detach the ego. Makes perfect sense, reason, like it's particular, logic, a...
Do you agree that this nonrepresentational, non dual consciousness cannot be the one in mind when we think of free will in philosophical terms? Becaus...
I can see that as our source of attachment to free will; but here's what I wonder/currently believe. What about situations where you think or say some...
Fair enough. However, to clarify, I think that I have arrived at most of my hypotheses following the reasoning of thinkers both east and west, and not...
Then Heidegger is not far from the hypothesis I currently believe, because I do not disagree. I'm just suggesting that Husserl admit that our inabilit...
Unintentionally. How then? If we are even thinking of approximately the same thing, not regarding the "whole" so much, but in what we mean by "realizi...
We want to be saved from our attachment to human-only constructions where we think in terms of suffering/not suffering. Though the myth, ritual, dogma...
No doubt Buddhism is in it somewhere in some degree. But I don't look at it as Buddhist, but as obvious. I'm not often that confident. But this puzzle...
In the 30s (of CM) H recognizes that precondition for perceiving objects is data input. I had to learn what an apple is. Now I see a "apple" unified a...
By definition. Death is the end of living. There should be no debate. Those who cling to the possibility, aren't thinking about life. Whether consciou...
Nice work. Stories can be more effective at expressing general ideas without having to be subjected to the stickler-isms that philosophy proper unders...
You probably didn't mean the under-current also "appears". You probably meant it appears that it also needs to be reckoned with. So yah. Modify my las...
Having read Philosophism's reply, I was compelled to read it as a short story. Im not sure if thats what you intened because it could so be like Desca...
Understood. My observation is that, while thinking that the phenomenological reduction ought, also, to bracket Nature, H did not take the phenomenolog...
Not only do you and I agree. But I remembered that Husserl prescribes same. Duh. What is a phenomenological (Husserlian) approach to Husserl, if not o...
I agree with you. The "of" is necessarily not a "content" (of) the "pure" mystical "event." The "of" is tacked on immediately after the event; for som...
Understood. Interesting and helpful. I've tried others of the basics without the assistance of a scholarly explanation and know exactly what you mean....
I do agree with both of you and see no prohibitive contradiction. In some instances it's the opposite of what they/one might think. The mediocre philo...
No hurry. Edit: Can I just share this thought having emerged from Cartesian...so far. I'm not half done. It's short but I'm an extremely patient reade...
I see your point as valid...but dig a bit deeper and maybe makes a valid point which need not be limited to the theoretical. A Catholic Mystic in cont...
Does it have to be a awareness of "God"? I think not. If (as you refer to Watts) Zen, Advait Vedanta, and Daoism can be thought of as (having) Mystica...
From my brief exploration so far (Cartesian...) Husserl rests in the same place as Descartes: not far enough. Both are happy to assume that because th...
Are you suggesting (I'm not taking issue) that The explanation for samadhi as expressed in Vedanta etc, is the physiological thus inducing, say, an "i...
If I may hazard a guess, the so called East (and the farther east you get the more this applied) "did" there philosophy, rather than keeping it in the...
Great question. I am not fully confident in the precise definition of 'Non-duality'. But if it is like monism in regard to ultimate reality being One,...
Yes Quite possibly, I'm digging up the dirt to clear the way but am jumping right into the very hole I'm digging. A thing always cognizant of, and yet...
Again, generally I agree with you. But I'm focused on an essence of religion which is a doing of metaphysics, beyond discourse. To do so with a goal i...
This overall thread? Not for me to say, I don't object; but I see that as an anthropological pursuit; one shared by at least one excellent representat...
Good enough. But why is the most we can credit religion with is its opioid effect; to sedate us in the face of our inevitable suffering. In its essenc...
Apologies. You're right. Do you reject religion and mysticism because they do not adhere strictly to reason? If not that, then why do you reject relig...
Guilt serves a function. Sometimes it triggers functionally, sometimes it misfires. But ultimately, it is, like a knife. And in that context, you are ...
Yes, but, you rightly pointed out that morality is the second quote--coercive rules. How I read the OP is they're wittingly moving away from that to f...
While I understand one must always discriminate, may I ask, what has locked you in so seemingly tight such that you have fettered your discretion to p...
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