In Buddhism we have the idea of the Two Truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. In Process Buddhism, in contrast, there is only one truth. Conventional truths (saṃvá¹›tisatya) are what is true in terms of everyday ordinary experience, which ranges from truths about the most basic things of everyday life (pots, tables, cats, cars, houses) …
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Here are some random thoughts I'm having while I'm finishing up an essay on the same topic: Part of the merit of a Process-Buddhist synthesis is that it can help resolve some deep aporias or internal inconsistencies in each of the traditions when they are considered in isolation. In Mahayana Buddhism there is a tendency …
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In the age of Hypermodernity where colonization is hypercolonization (where not just space but time and even attention itself is being colonized), the only real refuge is our own Buddha-nature — our innate core potential as the inseparable, amorous union of wisdom and compassion. Our real, true nature — our Buddha-nature — exceeds colonization and …
The fallacy of misplaced concreteness, whereby we mistake an abstract concept to be the concrete reality it points to, can be understood to be both the foundational basis, and exemplary case, of idolatry: it is the first to give birth to the icon and the last to remain upon its death. Key to note is …
One of the key factors that distinguishes my conception of the Principle of Inclusive-Transcendence from how it is conceived by Hegelians and Wilberians alike is its relationship to the Principle of Open/Emptiness. I will put it rather simplistically here and go over it in more detail in due time. To define the two principles in …
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Over the years I've developed a more open and soft orientation to "Secular Buddhism," a movement that aims to return to what it thinks is the original intent of the historical Buddha, namely, the practice of mindfulness to attain a state of supreme eudaimonia without dependence on any so-called "supernatural" or "superstitious" beliefs, rituals, mediators …
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The principles of open/emptiness and inclusive-transcendence play important roles in my speculative philosophy of history. In a mytho-poetic way we can anthropomorphize the two principles as feminine and masculine deities (Xena and Theo, respectively) who split apart from a primordial state in which they were indivisibly united as indistinguishable aspects of the same reality. This …
The concepts of Phallocracy & Gynarchy are here diagrammed and partially elaborated in the most general sense. They are supposed to be highly abstract and generalizable so that they can be applied to as many different concrete examples as possible. I conceive of them as two different "orders of difference," meaning that they are two …
The Bodhisattva's Bodhicitta — the energy which drives her mind-body vehicle towards perfect awakening — inclusively transcends both Nietzsche's Will to Power and Nick Land's Thirst for Annihilation, disclosing them as abstract, partial and one-sided (i.e. open-empty) facets of the total jewel that is her own resplendent nature. As she progressively and inexorably ascends to …
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Financial capitalization has a certain uncertain relationship to uncertainty. On the one hand, it has to be somewhat certain about the future income stream it expects from its present investments, otherwise there would be little point (from the capitalist's perspective) to engage in the productive activity; it would be deemed too risky. On the other …
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