If mistakes like this happen in Buddhism then it's reasonable to assume that such mistakes happen in other religions. I guess we'll just have to have faith in religious authorities. :starstruck: — praxis
Don't know what you're trying to say but I think it would be better to say that emptiness is the essential feature of Buddhism. — praxis
Significantly, you didn't answer my question about sentient beings in Adi-Purusha.
Change is considered illusory in Buddhism as well, so what? Gods are merely considered another type of sentient being. — praxis
Gods are merely considered another type of sentient being. — praxis
I know next to nothing about Hinduism. Sentient beings reincarnated after Purusha? — praxis
Kindly explain how then. You say yourself that "perception is indeed transient." — praxis
And all sentient beings have sense perception, right? — praxis
Yeah, Buddhism got formless realms too. But nut'n escapes the rule of transiency, not even stuff in the formless realms. Perhaps if someone thought up a changeless realm, now that would be a realm worth having around, forever! :razz:
Seriously though, perception requires change, in the material world or the spectral. — praxis
In any case, you haven't shown how the Buddha's rule of transiency is comparable with Hinduism. — praxis
I actually had a conversation with someone who was "nihilistic" and they argued the exact opposite of this, and how believing we were made by an intelligent designer and not out of what they called blind evolution is delusional and ridiculous. — Albero
The rule of transiency, my friend, is definitely incompatible with atman. — praxis
The Hindu atman apparently contradicts with the Buddhist concept of emptiness. I imagine that there are all sorts of ways to talk around the issue, but I don’t see a way to resolve it, and if there’s no resolution then at least one story must be false. — praxis
↪Dharmi Premoderns built empires of slavery & caste and eradicated conquored peoples of like-minded 'perennial mythologies' who would not be subjugated. Bronze Age barbarisms are memorialized in the Avesta, Mahabharata, Tanahk, Bible, Quran and the rest. Modernity's failings more often than not are vestiges of Premodern atavisms – return of the repressed – rationalized into "ideologies" and instrumentalized through administrative technocratic states. Same shit, different epochs, accelerated. The past that never was, friend, is only exists up one own's perennially tight arse. — 180 Proof
Don't worry so much about what people think as they are on their own journey and they must work out their own karma. You will never be able to change anybody's mind.
And it's not a matter of accepting your views. What do your views mean in my life? I must accept my own views 100%, as must everybody else. — synthesis
None of Lorber's patients had no brains. — Isaac
Wouldn't that be the role of the market? — frank
I assume you are a Buddhist? And I wouldn't be so hard on the animals. :) — synthesis
If it wasn't Christianity, it would have been something else. — synthesis
I didn’t suggest there is no meaning. In fact, I believe that we are all utterly saturated in meaning. — praxis
Meaning is used by those in a position of power or influence to control the masses. If a society taught its citizens about meaning, what it is and how to find it for themselves, it wouldn’t be as easy to corral them like sheep to the slaughter. — praxis
"God" is just a psychosocial (i.e. sheep-corraling) placebo-fetish, or drug-dependency of choice. Like a drunk's "happiness", which is drink. Why not life liberty and the prefrontal lobotomy? — 180 Proof
I rather think that we use it way too much. You don't see animals doing stupid shit all the time. — synthesis
I think millions of people might disagree with your assessment. And you might think differently in time. — synthesis
If Jordan Peterson leaves a legacy, I believe he will be known for advocating that the key to finding meaning in one's life is through the taking of personal and then social responsibility. It is through this mechanism that one can navigate their path using meaning as a compass. — synthesis
It is only our intellect that demands a purpose to our lives as a filler when we decide that sitting around and twiddling our thumbs is more productive than actually doing something. — synthesis
Sure, as someone born in the modern age, I think it save to say I view things from a modernist perspective... I'm a product of the times, I'm not sure how that could be otherwise.
And I agree Christianity is to be blamed for everything. — ChatteringMonkey
I think there is a problem of meaning, certainly in the west. I think meaning for most people is tied to having a perspective of playing some role in the larger societies they are part of. Historically religion played a huge part in providing that, even if it was just a story people told. — ChatteringMonkey
The neoliberalism I'm talking about is a post ww2 philosophy that identifies various threats to freedom. Freedom is the key word, and the almighty good is a free market. — frank