"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 …
One of the interesting things I've learned from working in the 3D scanning/digitization industry is that typically the most precious, fragile, ephemeral and transitory things are the most difficult to capture. Included in this set of things which evade capture are such things like fluids whether liquid, gas, or plasmic, with transparent, glassy and/or highly …
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From nethermost nescience to the apex of omniscience, all states of knowledge are without any ultimately real foundation whatsoever—and the same applies to the very states themselves. Without the recognition of this basic fact, it is impossible to ascend from ignorance to knowledge. For if things did have an intrinsically existent foundation or essence, it …
In verses 19 and 20 of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā in the chapter analyzing Nirvana, Nāgārjuna states that "There is no distinction whatsoever between samsara and nirvana. There is no distinction whatsoever between nirvana and samsara. What is the limit of nirvana, that is the limit of samsara. There is not even the finest gap to be …
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If "Full Communism," understood as communism brought to its highest measure, is truly superior to all "logically prior" modes of production which historically precede it (such as slavery, feudalism, capitalism, and socialism), then it must "inclusively transcend" them all, which is to say that it must contain them all as partial abstractions of itself, which …
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There are two ways we can characterize the process of becoming liberated from bondage: Process A (pA): The ground/starting point is other than (is different from) the fruit/goal, and the path/movement from the former to the latter has aspects or elements of both. Process B (pB): The ground is nothing other than (is the same …
Unphilosophy is the practice of undoing philosophy by demonstrating that the transcendental conditions for the very possibility of philosophy are also, at the same time, the ultimate end of its own immanent movement, in order to immediately bring philosophy to its own end so as to open up the clearing for illuminating wisdom.This is done …
If I recall correctly, for Graham Harman and perhaps Object-Oriented Ontology generally, an individual cannot be exhausted by any or all of its relations. Thus there is some kind of irreducible essence that is particular to that individual object. But there's something circular about this idea, because it offers a definition of the individual object …
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There's something paradoxical or even ironic about the concept of the conventional (saṃvṛti) being understood as a kind of "truth" (satya), since in some interpretations of the two truths the conventional is understood as false in contrast to the ultimate (paramārtha) which is alone true. Generally, according to these views, often associated with the Sakya …
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Bodhi, (which is Sanskrit and Pāli for “awakening”) can be said to be the highest possible attainment for any being, but it cannot be said to be ultimate reality, which itself is categorically inexplicable. Paradoxically and figuratively speaking we can say that Bodhi is the mind who cognizes ultimate reality, and this cognition is a …
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