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- Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:05 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7094
Re: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
I guess the appeal of an all embracing ontological worldview has always been strong, as we can see in the Upanishads. It is a warm fuzzy point of view: It is all One, we are all One, and all sorts of warm fuzzy platitude that can follow from that. Also: "You are a dualist, always in opposition...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:31 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
Facts as you, in your opinion, understand them. In this you are no different than anyone else, in my opinion, which is a fact as I understand it.ToVincent wrote: ...based on hard facts.
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:26 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
Facts as you, in your opinion, understand them. In this you are no different than anyone else, in my opinion, which is a fact as I understand it.ToVincent wrote: ...based on hard facts.
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:14 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
Thank you for sharing your opinions.ToVincent wrote: . . .
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
Facts as you, in your opinion, understand them. Thank you for sharing them.ToVincent wrote: . . .
This is just an opinion based on hard facts, from the suttas with strict parallels.
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
Thank you for sharing your opinions about facts and such.ToVincent wrote: . . .
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:42 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7094
Re: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
Actually in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Nagarjuna does not use the term advaya, not does he talk about "nonduality." If advaya is used in terms of the Madhyamaka, it is a much later development. Just looked this up. You're right, I posted an unwarranted assumption :toilet: I did find that th...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
. . . "That's better" ... "Thank you for sharing your opinions; however, I find nothing in them, or their delivery, that is compelling." That overall condescending tone of yours, won't mask the hard facts. Buddha did talk about a "doer" and an "other". Sorry ...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:42 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is Paṭicca-samuppāda a "Scientific" Theory of Everything?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4185
Re: Is Paṭicca-samuppāda a Theory of Everything?
Have to make amends (though not my fault completely). I am not one to back away from swallowing my pride. What do you guys think? Is Paṭicca-samuppāda a Theory of Everything? Or, an even broader question, is the Dhamma supposed to explain "everything" as some seem to hold or is it more a ...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:59 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Interpenetrationality
- Replies: 89
- Views: 21223
Re: Interpenetrationality
------------- Interpenetrationality. Damdifino what this word is supposed to mean in a practical sense. If you are asking about my sticking of the compound affix "-ality" on the end of "Interpenetration", it is technically a redundancy, but one that is well attested in the Engli...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:40 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is Paṭicca-samuppāda a Theory of Everything?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4823
Re: Is Paṭicca-samuppāda a Theory of Everything?
Thanks for posting this. I think your synopsis of the essay is intriguing enough for me to want to read it. I agree with his ideas in what you posted, particularly about what he said in what I left in place below. For me this is quite congruent with vipassana practice. . . . As Hamilton puts it the ...
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
Thank you for sharing your opinions; however, I find nothing in them, or their delivery, that is compelling.ToVincent wrote: . . .
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
- Replies: 208
- Views: 41537
Re: Thought substitution vs. Observing feeling
That's better.ToVincent wrote: . . .
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:50 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7094
Re: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
Actually in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Nagarjuna does not use the term advaya, not does he talk about "nonduality." If advaya is used in terms of the Madhyamaka, it is a much later development. Just looked this up. You're right, I posted an unwarranted assumption :toilet: I did find that th...
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:06 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7094
Re: Are there any other schools of Buddhism, besides Theravada, that are not non-dual?
Everything is brahman, everything is nothing; either way he's still saying everything is the same thing. "[E]verything is nothing" is not what Nagarjuna is saying. And even if he were "Everything is brahman, everything is nothing; either way he's still saying everything is the same t...