Our eyes have a natural scotoma or "blind spot" where we can't actually take in visual information because of a lack of photoreceptive cells in the area where your optic nerve connects to your retina, the tissue that collects the information that gets processed by your brain after being transferred through the optic nerve. The …
In order to disclose the nature of the actual world (equivalent to the settled facts of the immediate past) as openly-empty (meaning, being empty or without an ultimate foundation) we deploy the method of negative dialectics whereby presuppositions of an inherently existent entity, process or relation that could serve as the ground of the actual …
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The Principle of Inclusive Transcendence is the governing principle that the manifold diversity of experiences which constitute a given, shared reality come together and coalesce into a new occasion that integrates the preceding ones as part of its own internal constitution and which is brought about by a novel act of creative synthesis, only to …
There is no joy above the joy which rejoices in the vanquishing of sorrow, its constitutive other. Joy does not exist contrary to sorrow, but ultimately includes and transcends it as part of its own constitution. If sorrow were not somehow present alongside joy, then there would be no contrast that could afford joy its …
I think when you analyze the relationship between the two truths, they necessarily lead to the implication that there is actually only one truth. In this way the two truths themselves are relatively conventional in contrast to the one truth which is their ultimate nature. Anything which can be said to exist, not exist, both …
Instead of thinking that a Buddha is either an omniscient being who has simultaneous cognition of all truths, or an insentient being with no mind or mental processes whatsoever, let us consider that a Buddha is not a being at all but a mere hypostatization: a virtual projection of the mind based on avidyā/agnosis/ignorance; an …
For me, dialectic is expressed in two different senses, and each sense can be subdivided into homological pairs of opposing dispositions, based on either dialogic or monologic orientations. One sense involves successive interlocution with a hypothetical interlocutor. This is the “constructive” sense of dialectic which merely mimics, in impure form, the form of expression peculiar …
I think one of the reasons why people have a hard time accepting or even considering the Buddhist thesis of no-self (that the self cannot be found under analysis) is that they don't care enough about themselves in the first place in order to find this unfindability. This is ironic because it suggests that your …
One of the ways one might think about the nonduality of wisdom and ignorance (that there is ultimately no basis for differentiation between the two) is how awe in sublimity can express itself as either wonder or terror.When we're genuinely in awe of the sublime, we are directly apprehending qualities which would otherwise be quantitatively …
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"Samsara" is reality based on exclusion, affliction, and delusion. "Nirvana" is reality without exclusion, affliction, and delusion. Samsara, when seen as not-Nirvana, is experienced as Samsara.Samsara, when seen as just Samsara, is experienced as Nirvana. With regards to experience,it can go one way or the other,but never both at the same time,and only one at …
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