That's why it has to be interpreted carefully! If you read the early texts, the unique station of the Buddha is precisely transcendence of samsara, me...
I am very familiar with Zen literature, but it is often quoted out of context, as it was greatly popularised by the Beat generation and their successo...
There was one quote presented, I looked up the origin of the quote, I read the entry. On that basis, not the kind of writer I'm going to study. Life's...
It says he is nihilist which is all I need to know. It also comes through in that quotation. And I have noticed that discussions with 'Agostino' quick...
There was a really poignant story published about 4 years ago, about some high-flying academic who adopted a chimp and raised it as a human, convinced...
The quote from Cioran - I'm not familiar with that writer - is a meditation on the meaning of the 'myth of the fall'. It says that: 'the fall - emblem...
Sure, well that's plausible. Higher animals - elephants, some birds, dogs, cats, primates - are 'beings', although again, they're not human beings. Bu...
Schopenhauer described himself as atheist, and is usually taken to be one, however I think what he meant by that is his rejection of orthodox Christia...
There was an interesting and touching story from 2012, when a man called Lawrence Anthony died in South Africa. He had been an elephant conservationis...
Good luck to him. If he can succeed as an author, publishing that kind of book, then half his luck! (Although, of course, a stoic ought to remain unmo...
I like what Ram Dass said about it - he didn't deny the efficaciousness of hallucinogens in glimpsing higher states - how could he have, considering h...
You're not alone. I would simply make the point that 'the Copenhagen Interpretation' is not a scientific hypothesis. It is only a description of the k...
As I understand it, which may be not very well, the probability wave really is a distribution of probabilities - nothing more than that. So it's not a...
Well that's the whole measurement problem in a nutshell. All the big arguments are about this very point. Realists want to insist that there is a real...
There are no particles as such prior to the act of measurement. Literally all there is is the possibility of there being one. It is the measurement wh...
Are you sure that's not simply because you don't want to contemplate the idea that someone could be so willingly evil? He answered all of the question...
From what little I read about this case, Roof strikes me as competent within the legal definition of that term. Certainly he might be psychopathic, bu...
I think that's where the problem lies. Evolution is a biological theory, and insofar as we are biological subjects, then it explains much about us - r...
You didn't address the point. Putting it another way - the evidence for 'other worlds' can only ever be indirect. So it's an example of 'abductive inf...
I don't concur with that definition. If that was the meaning of 'absolute reality' then it would refer to something absolutely unknowable. In any case...
You're aware that Bohm's reputation in US academia had already been permanently affected by his early association with communism? He was actually forc...
from the article: That is the nub of the reductionist argument. Whenever discussion turns to such things as 'purpose', unless in the strictly function...
Basically, that calls into question the whole 'uncertainty principle' discovered by Heisenberg. Einstein wanted desperately to believe something simil...
When you say 'MWI is a testable prediction', what you mean is that the results are compatible with the many worlds explanation; the results appear to ...
The contents of your post basically amounts to: be good. Interestingly, there is an anecdote in Chinese Buddhism, wherein an emperor asks a Buddhist m...
As I noted, those wishing to present a naturalistic interpretation of Buddhism would say it is metaphorical, but traditionally 'world-transcending' do...
And what, according to Spinoza, was the acme, the highest point, of the philosopher's life? SEP The Indo-European pantheon are an ubiquitous presence ...
On the other forum, Mariner often used to remind us that 'metaphysical' and 'supernatural' are basically synonymous, the first derived from Greek, the...
Not if it means nothing to you. I think the question is, what can possibly rationalise or provide the motivation for that? I don't believe it is. I re...
I'm not biased, I'm presenting a philosophical argument. Actually, it's a meta-philosophical argument. I have many meta-philosophical differences with...
I don't see the point of the question. The answer would depend on a lot of factors. There are plenty of people who have apparently fantastic lives but...
What 'guarantees' do you think I have been offering? I too work, run a household, and the rest. And, yes, my ability to all of those has been improved...
Well, I really have to differ with you on that. It's not a matter of 'having an experience' - I'm referring to the meta-cognitive change that is calle...
Which is why I employed the analogy of 'breaking out of the game'. The 'beatific vision' is not 'a temporary state', but a transition to an entirely n...
Because the term 'objective' is problematic in relation to this question. Are you familiar with David Hume's statement of the 'is/ought' problem? (Quo...
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