praxis

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Not sure how else to respond to the claim that Theravada Buddhists don't believe in emptiness.

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Theravadins also believe in the twelve links of dependent origination.

You’ve taken it personally. I wonder why? :chin:

Ignorance of our true nature, rather, and what is our true nature you ask? Emptiness.

Posts like this are becoming the new normal.

I asked for a second opinion too. They said, “It’s not an opinion, the test results are factual.” So I asked for a second fact. They said, “Sure, you’...

Or maybe it would be better to think of it in a different way. In a way, everything we experience is a simulation and both 'body' and 'spirit' are par...

Your sleep should improve if you give up caffeine.

How can something non-physical interact with something physical?

Realization is a concept. I think you may mean what some refer to as trans-rationality, as opposed to rationality or irrationality, and generally spea...

Not quite, I switched it up on ya, substituting soul for body. After asking four times you finally addressed the question by asking a question, the po...

Sounds like economics will be easy peasy lemon squeezey for ya.

I just finished a book on thousand brain theory that accounts for this, I believe. Take a look if it interests you. https://numenta.com/wp-content/upl...

Feel bad about the cheetah cub. Thoughts and prayers. :pray:

You could at least try to make sense.

You appear to be suggesting that it's impossible to be and have a body because the body is physical and that it is possible to be and have a spirit be...

This is nonsensical. You say that the brain is a stimulous-response mechanism and that emotions are part of that mechanism (“The vibrations you mentio...

How is being and having a body is fundamentally different from being and having a spirit? Fourth time I’ve asked.

Maybe I’m missing the point here but the concepts of ‘body’ and ‘self’ both change, are composed of parts, indeed millions of neural connections, yet ...

Atman is Hindu, Anatman (not-self) is Buddhist. :brow: It’s not OKAY that you still haven’t answered my question about how being and having a body is ...

Eastern (Buddhist) philosophy is about realizing emptiness and pretty much the opposite of what you appear to be indicating. Still don’t get how being...

Okay, I’m not a body. The second, and very obvious question is, "If you are a mind or a soul, then why do you say 'my mind or my soul', 'I have a mind...

Unfortunately, letting go has had little impact. Mind and body are inextricably linked.

The core of Buddhism is about letting go. Transhumanism seems to be about grasping, in the form of daydreaming.

Transhumanism may be a viable method to sell books and crap to other daydreamers and make some money, but that’s about the extent of its value.

Wow, thanks for explaining. I was missing context, and admittedly too put-off by the image to give it more attention. I thought it was twins or trick ...

Okay then, let’s put the poetry aside and take the question seriously, or rather, realistically. What do you think would happen to a mind if all senso...

There’s no point to disputing poetry.

What does that image mean to you.

Actually a good portion of your brain is devoted to mapping your body parts and keeping track of their location in relation to other objects. If you d...

So you’ve said, and I’ve been attempting expand your apparently rather limited concept of what a mind is. The mind is generally regarded set of facult...

In that case it’s best to go with what we do know rather than baseless speculation or superstitions, right?

The soul dies with the body then?

Which is similar to half a mug. Half a mug is a diminished (loss of capacity & function) mug, right? Half a brain is a diminished (loss of capacity & ...

The implication is that it’s not really about the sanctity of life, because if it were the concern would not immediately disappear after delivery.

Curiously, there’s strong evidence that when abortion is prohibited poverty and crime significantly increases years later, so in effect granting right...

Notably, in the latter example all parties directly involved are in agreement, and not so much in the former example.

It means that capital punishment, slaughtering animals, etc, should be illegal.

I have a good mental representation of a mug, if I may say so myself, and I can assure you that it’s a mug and not a piano or whatever. I’ve imagined ...

Exactamundo. :razz:

If my concept of a mug is not a mug then how can I reliably recognize mugs? I assure you I’m quite good at recognizing mugs. Maybe you don’t think I c...

What’s the insight into a fact about the nature of existence? If you cannot say then perhaps it is incompatible with science, and that would suggest B...

Correct, the “mug itself” is not a mug without the idea of a mug. I wrote that ‘mind’ is a concept. I didn’t say anything about half a mind. That’s ab...

It cannot because if science could explain things like karma and rebirth then it would deprive religious authorities of their authority and the puppet...

If mind and matter are mutually dependent then it is a completely arbitrary distinction to claim that one is cause and the other reacts to that cause.

Basically all you’re saying is that everything in the physical world reacts. If you drop a rubber ball it will bounce when it hits the ground or if yo...

This is clearly false. Thirst, hunger, and the desire for sex, are encoded into our dna, and what could be more internal than that. We’re even inheren...

Significantly, both mug and mind are concepts. They are not actual things that exists independently and each have various aspects. Depending on how yo...