Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Why do you describe yourself as leaning toward Buddhism?
Probably because I've been doing Buddhist practice for 35 years. Among other things.
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Why do you describe yourself as leaning toward Buddhism?
Probably because I've been doing Buddhist practice for 35 years. Among other things.
Welcome. It is about my family, my society, my country, and my world as to what is really best for them.I'm interested in hearing your use of this.
Welcome. It is about my family, my society, my country, and my world as to what is really best for them.
@ Gambit, I have a Buddhist connection though I am not a Buddhist. First, Hinduism regards Buddha as the ninth avatara of Lord Vishnu. And second, Buddha is my second guru having taught me not to accept anything without scrutiny. My first guru is the first Sankaracharya.
Because it doesn't appear that you subscribe to one of the basic tenets of Buddhism - namely, that all sentient beings have "Buddha-nature."
How so?A fiction
Why is this of any relevance (especially in light of the fact that you have presented yourself as an atheist)?
How so?
Particularly when they are used to attempt to communicate to others.
Is your mind all you are? Was the world real to you as a child before you had your ideas about the world you do now? Is the world real to an infant? Isn't this the illusion that our thoughts and ideas constitute reality? Can't experience exist as it is, without the wash of ideas you have to "hold" in your mind?Something that I cannot hold in my mind cannot be considered 'real' by my mind.
Indeed it is. Everything that I perceive is in my mind. I cannot talk about anything that is not of "I"Is your mind all you are?
Can just experience without any judgement of ideas about it exist in the mind? In other words, are you defining mind as your ideas, or the place through which we perceive and experience the world, with or without thoughts and ideas? Does a dog experience the world? Does a tapeworm, which lacks a brain? What is "mind" to you?Indeed it is. Everything that I perceive is in my mind. I cannot talk about anything that is not of "I"
Can just experience without any judgement of ideas about it exist in the mind? In other words, are you defining mind as your ideas, or the place through which we perceive and experience the world, with or without thoughts and ideas? Does a dog experience the world? Does a tapeworm, which lacks a brain? What is "mind" to you?
Isn't cognitive thought a tool of mind? Do all animals have cognitive thoughts? Yet a bird has a bird world. It perceives and interacts with it through its social structures as well and they become part of its lived reality. But aren't those all simply what shape the experience of reality itself, as understood in the minds of all living things? Is it is possible to know reality by knowing mind itself, prior to and beyond any social or cognitive frameworks that define the boundaries of our realities? Isn't mind at its basis, the perceiver, the seer, the knower, and what is known is not mind itself?For me, mind is that which thinks, perceives and acts. It is the product of interaction between my social/cultural context and my biology.
I don't think mind and its contents can be separated. I am a construct of my mind. I wholly accept that one can get lost in a mystical moment but by definition that mystical moment when one is in some sense absent or fallen away can never be 'mine' because 'I' was not there.Is it is possible to know reality by knowing mind itself, prior to and beyond any social or cognitive frameworks that define the boundaries of our realities? Isn't mind at its basis, the perceiver, the seer, the knower, and what is known is not mind itself?