As I research and design Process Buddhism, I've come to understand the unity of the two ultimates of open/emptiness and inclusive-transcendence in three different ways, where the two ultimates are different aspects of a "third" ultimate: holopoiesis (my own novel concept), power, and love. I came to these different results from different angles, but there …
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I think there is an implicit ontology baked into capitalist social relations, and it's a contradictory "practical ontology" that simultaneously upholds a dualism between subject and object, self and other, the intensive and the extensive, mind and matter, etc. while unfolding through time as a tendency towards a monist subsumption of the former (subject, etc.) …
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 (saṃvṛtisatya) 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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At face value, Alfred North Whitehead's Process thought and the view of Madhyamaka Buddhists seem to characterize reality in diametrically opposed manners. Whitehead's view, that all events go through a process of "concrescence" culminating in a final satisfaction that passes into objective immortality, seems to contradict the Buddha's teaching that all conditioned things, which are …
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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 …
From nethermost nescience to the apex of omniscience,each and every mental event is like a magical illusion or virtual hologram:empty of inherent existence yet clearly present as a luminous appearance.Since there has never been a real object of grasping apprehended by a really grasping subject,each and every mental event is understood to be primordially self-liberated …
Unphilosophy is the praxis 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 about the self-liberation of philosophy so as to open up the clearing for the illumination of primordial …
Holopoiesis 