and where did the notion or the common belief that nihilism is aligned with evil Because nihilism, esp. of the more Nietzchean "nothing really matters, so meh" variety is antinomian , and as such, contrary to religion. Secondly, such nihilism maintains that "life is all for naught&qu...

As I see it, goodness aligns itself with mundane right view , and nihilism with supramundane right view, (Cf. MN 117). In the Alagaddupama Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya the Buddha warns that his Dhamma is like a snake, if handled wrongly it’s liable to bite you. Nihilism can be liberating, but it can...

There was a documentary Mirage Men that came out several years back that gives some context of what is going on. Alex Jones believes this to be a governmental psyop.

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:59 pm
I think this confirms my view that Phenomenological Buddhism is a new Abhidhamma. His arguments there are very similar to the older Abhidhamma and it’s use of sabhava. I take the opposite view, but I know Bhante and yourself won’t agree with me.

That's okay. I'm not trying to change your views.

Sounds like substance theory to me. As I point out (ATTĀ), 'With the question of a thing's self-identity (which presents no difficulty) the Buddha's Teaching of anattā has nothing whatsoever to do: anattā is purely concerned with "self" as subject '. But this is very much more difficult t...

Sorry, you’ll have to translate into more everyday English? Which part don't you understand? All of it. It’s not clear what you’re trying to say. Things change but remain the same? Yes. A thing remains the same thing displaying different aspects of itself as it endures. As Ven. Ñanavira explains: I...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:46 pm

pulga wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:41 pm

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:19 pm

Makes it hard to see how there can be an escape.

It comes down to how we undeniably experience duration which requires invariance under transformation.

Sorry, you’ll have to translate into more everyday English?

Which part don't you understand?

Consciousness is conditioned And can become unconditioned Each level of consciousness is founded upon the layers beneath it. [On Sartre's discussion of Husserl's 'absolute proximity of consciousness with respect to itself' and the self-awareness of consciousness as existing:] (i) The phrase 'the ab...

Yes it would. Ven. Ñanavira embraced the regress, considering its rejection a prejudice of Western philosophy, and sheer cowardice on Sartre's part. Husserl tried to get around the regress by positing an absolute consciousness that stands apart, independent of time, an absolute substrate. Ven. Ñana...

As I understand the term, awareness is conscious of being conscious. Wouldn’t that make awareness self conditioning, or to an infinite regress? Yes it would. Ven. Ñanavira embraced the regress, considering its rejection a prejudice of Western philosophy, and sheer cowardice on Sartre's part. Husser...

I can see that "self awareness" is a problematic term, but "awareness" alone is simply too vague to be useful, and could equally well be used for Viññāṇa. As I understand the term, awareness is conscious of being conscious. As Ven. Ñanavira would say, awareness requires two laye...

To know the Dhamma as truth is to go beyond mere reasoning, which for a dhammānusārī has not yet happened: he or she is sure of the correctness of their reasoning, so much so that they follow it, but they are still aware that this certainty has no basis other than their own reasoning. At least that...

So you are saying that someone who, by definition, does not know the Dhamma as truth, is claiming that the purely conceptual knowledge they take to be Dhamma is actually Dhamma? - This is simply a false statement because it contradicts itself. There is the dhammānusārī , though I don't think Ceisiw...

I vaguely recall an existential philosopher who said something in the lines of: instead of dismissing suicide, one should ask why they have not committed suicide yet. Might it be Camus opening lines in his Myth of Sisyphus ? There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide....

This summary of Heidegger's view on death from Blackman's Six Existentialist Thinkers has a lot of Dhamma in it, at least on a particular level. Death, then, is the clue to authentic living, the eventual and omnipresent possibility which binds together and stabilizes my existence.... I anticipate de...