Self-referentiality points to our tendency to conflate the thing with our thoughts about said thing. Also, more generally, it points to the possibilit...
Interesting. On the contrary, I find that usually, when people blame others, they do so in an effort to get the upper hand in the situation, to obtain...
Or maybe things have somehow worked out so far _despite_ democracy. I only need to look at the situation in the country I live in, and I see that demo...
No need for such consideration. The OP is talking about Buddhism being "realistic" in the popular, vernacular sense of "realistic", namely, "commonsen...
Do explain why ephemerality makes life worth living. Rare and fleeting doesn't automatically make something worthwhile. There are many horrible rare d...
Then why preface your sentences with "the Buddha said" and such? So my earlier point about clinging to the desire for pleasure still stands. You're no...
You haven't actually done an actual analysis as to whether our life is unique, have you? And fleeting -- a rabies infection or a tsunami devastating t...
What's the use of discussing a problem if no workable solution is in sight, or worse, when there's reason to believe that there is no workable solutio...
Rather, the salient point is that perception is an active, deliberate process. Indeed, we normally don't see ourselves that way. We tend to think that...
His complete epistemic self-confidence is that reason. Once you see yourself as the arbiter of the truth about other entities, what's there to stop yo...
For every "Buddha said" one should have a canonical reference. One wouldn't want to spread as "the word of the Buddha" something for which one doesn't...
The problem with naive realism doesn't apply as long as we talk about tables and chairs (except for the rare cases of optical, auditory and other illu...
What exactly are you wondering about? Another example: A few years back, a minister in the Croatian government was found to be involved in some illega...
How about posting a thread only for voting where the items in the poll are the titles of the stories. Only one vote per poster, if the aim is to vote ...
You do realize the absurd irony of talking about this with people, right? Anyway, the way I see it, your problem is a case of simplificationism, the d...
Rather, the problem is that he doesn't seem to conceive of a life _with_ that insight in it. It seems a rather common problem. Look at people in strif...
And you feel exactly the same way about other people. So you're even, and you can't cry foul. What you say above is actually a view expressed in Early...
Kamma is intention, is sometimes said. Acknowledging that humans are a mixed bag, a mixure of good and bad is not misanthropy, it's realistic. But it ...
Much to their chagrin, scientists will have to agree that to the brain, the above two pleasures are the same. And if the brain is the measure of all t...
For one, there is in our culture barely any setting in which it would be appropriate to talk about suffering. One cannot talk about it at the watercoo...
“There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones notices: “When this is, that is. “From the arising of this comes the arising of that. “When this...
I bet this is a Western conception as well, a Western reading of Mahayana. Easterners generally don't see the "ego" as as problematic as Westerners do...
Calling Buddhism "realistic" is clearly an attempt to make Buddhism more marketable, more palatable to Westerners. But to have a better sense of how t...
Or maybe that's what religion/spirituality is all about! In no other field of life is the mindfuck so complete and so pervasive as in religion/spiritu...
And the Jews in Nazi camps created their meaning, made their life meaningful, in communty with the Nazis. I'm not saying that what you said was wrong....
You've brought this up before, but I hesitated addressing this much. In short, if you're eager to compete, religion/spirituality is a brilliant venue ...
No, you're not that shallow. I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. The communality you so highly praise is fraught with conflict and strife...
Well, you sounded quite defeated in your previous comment. Of course you don't, given how gung-ho you were. :wink: I actually admire people who can me...
Which he dismissed as a dead end, something that can be skipped. I don't see it that way at all. Framing it that way sounds like, for one, operating o...
Well, whenever you're ready. Like I said earlier, there is no universal should in Buddhism the way such shoulds exist in most other religions. All tha...
In the short-term, yes. Theravada takes a different view on this. Namely, it sees meditation as a matter of skill, developing a skill, mastering a ski...
It is. It's often said that Buddhism "goes against the flow". Yes. What I find peculiar in all this is your continued interest in Buddhism. It reveals...
It's because of these shortcomings of your vocabulary that it's difficult to the point of impossible to have much of a discussion here. Your knowledge...
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