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Probably because they believe that their lives are worth more than those of animals. Many people also believe that their lives are worth more than the...

The Jains, ideally, believing in absolute harmlessness, end up not eating at all, and thus die of starvation. Humans can only take a human perspective...

I do. It's a dishonorable perspective to take. Dishonorable for the person who takes such a perspective. The debate around whether X is deserving of r...

Because this is the only perspective that we can intelligibly have. That's, basically, the Jain perspective, a recipe for a slow death by starvation.

The title of the thread is "What is Nirvana". The "speculative questions" are not the OP's fault, though. It's evident the OP has read some popular Bu...

"Egolessness" is a term from popular/modern Buddhism. It's rather difficult to talk about it because "egolessness" is a term that is hard to support w...

The OP is specifically asking about what is nirvana. It's a request for a clarification of terms. But, and this is my point, there are several competi...

Such a scenario would not occur for someone who has vowed to train themselves according to the (five) precepts. In other words, there are epistemic cu...

Actually, it's the ideas about what Western culture and Westerners are like that I find more peculiar. On the one hand, we have folk wisdom sayings li...

Clearly then, you're working with a heuristic for how even an unenlightened person can nevertheless choose the right school, the right lineage, the ri...

The problem with these kinds of arguments is that they externalize the justification. Ie. the case is made that some being or object has inherent valu...

As for Buddhism: No, but a case of witholding final judgment until the conditions for it are met. Or, holding tenets tentatively, provisionally. It's ...

Indeed. The focus should be on the behavior of humans, and not on the supposed inherent value and nature of animals, or the rights of animals. In othe...

Not produce pork or beef, nor do anything that would support their production.

Oh no, those Californians are undead.

I don't see them as speculative in the pejorative sense suggested, but as questions that are bound to arise for a person who relies on extracanonical ...

I addressed your OP question in my first post in this thread. The links from it contain further links that address all of your further questions. Unde...

You can start right here, right now: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ or https://suttacentral.net/pitaka/sutta Okay. "Kamma" is Pali for Sanskrt "karm...

Buddhist practice is a matter of life and death. Right view vs. wrong view is a matter of life and death. Right view and wrong view cannot coexist pea...

But have you read anything from the primary Buddhist text, the Pali Canon? Why would you even think of accepting it? From a Theravadan perspective, th...

One of the meanings of "samsara" is 'to wander on, aimlessly'.

But have you read anything from the primary Buddhist text, the Pali Canon? It doesn't seem to, as the analogy with the handful of leaves illustrates. ...

(Okay, let's be serious.)

There are dozens of purported pathways of practice to Nirvana. How do you know which one to choose? Assuming that one means something by the words one...

Really? "Do something", and then, once you attain nirvana, you'll know it. Sounds as much like a plan as deciding to go to Katowice, and then just "go...

Try what, find out what? What the term "nirvana" means?

What is the source for your understanding of Buddhist doctrine?

Disenfranchized people and those on the verge of disenfranchizement are less likely to cooperate with the government's agenda and with society at larg...

There should be a forum section for the philosophy of productivity and the philosophy of personal organization. Seriously. Doing (academic) philosophy...

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“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...

Indeed. Anyway, and I don't mean this to belittle you, my point is that you work yourself up over very little. So you realized that your sila is lacki...

The system for reporting side effects of vaccination varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some countries, there is an official webpage on whic...

Based on what statistics?

Sure, it's a position of status. You could have picked up from there and move up the hierarchical ladder. There's a saying -- Better to be a fallen br...

I'm nearing fifty and in my entire life, there has not been a single occasion, IRL or online, where I felt I could speak "freely". There is no such th...

I think that, for practical intents and purposes, a major downside of phenomenology is that taking it up as the way to view the world, it has an alien...

And I say again,

Glad to see you're getting something useful out of this. In philosophy, there's no way around reading, and reading a lot.

I don't want to read books or any other texts that way. I've always struggled to "read for pleasure", but in the last years, moreso than ever. By now,...

A consideration like this is only relevant if a person sees themselves as a worthy member of society, and if society sees one as a worthy member. You ...

There's a theme that the vocal pro-vaccers don't seem to understand, and which is also strongly tabooed in our society. I've brought up this theme sev...

No. Why do you ask?

Now tell me: How would you go about teaching how to feel shame?

Although I do love the forests and the mountains and the rivers and the lakes here in this country.

I don't love "my" country, and "my" country was an underling to monarchies for centuries, and, if anything, on the receiving end of genocide or coloni...

Bah. Emoting is not a given, it's culturally conditioned. Yes, we learn how to feel about something, we can be taught how to feel about something. Adv...

Mkay. Another idea: In some (older) cultures, the socially expected response to shame is humility, and with it, minimalism. Can you sketch out your id...

Where's the catch in this OP? Why ask such a question? Out of fear of being duped? Or is it based on the concern that personal gnosis is, essentially,...

But shame fuels consumerism, thus fueling capitalism.