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Kevin also wrote: But Truth is not so inviting. It destroys lives and families. Only those who love it with all their hearts can navigate its barriers. For whatever anecdotal edification this might provide, I am asked now and again to teach an adult-returning course called Philosophy and Women at th...

Excerpted from The Teaching of Buddha Published by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism) Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Two hundred and forty-fifth revised edition, 2001 4. Thus the spiritual struggle went on in the mind of the Prince until his only child, Rahula, was born when he was...

Sapius, whose thoughts I've appreciated reading before on this forum, the better answer to your question of "Isn't the present a concept" would have been for me to take my shoe off and conk you over the head with it . . . . if you were present here . . . . You'd know right what it is then,...

prince writes: Are you sure it's not you who is doing the spinning? My words about meditation are also reflective of my thinking. So go ahead and compare. This thread seems to be about meditation, not about meditation. Two things here, prince. If you are subtle enough to make such a distinction, you...

I sent NickOtani the address to this forum before I had refreshed myself of its contents -- so pardon the meditation question in the ABCs thread, when you are down here already discussing it. (My time has been limited to vertical reading into threads instead of horizontally across the board.) There ...

David wrote: But you're right. It is primarily because the Totality is infinitely complex that predictions are so hard to make. Long way back around to this. Thanks for the cup of tea, Leyla. Leyla wrote: I see no reason not to simply say appearances are "the now" -- naturally, that compri...

If you are enjoying surfing the wave then your wonderment will be in the wave, and you will remain a surfer pushed along by the wave. But as your wisdom increases the more you will identify with the wave, which is your larger self. In reality there is no surfer. The wonderment vanishes once you rea...

I think she means wisdom under the guise of various forms of expression or language. "Formal attire" like the Buddhist sutras, or "casual" like the Zen Masters. That works, thanks Kevin. This idea has been making me think of a young student I had some years ago, who never spoke ...

In most discussions about this it seems to boil down to what one defines as 'the one that wills'. Can there be a willing, free or not, without first determining who or what is supposed to be in control? Where are its boundaries? In a wide-seeing scheme that takes into account all cause-and-effect, ...

Society isn’t interested in truth, it’s only directive is it’s own advancement. That would be the causal truth of society then, yes? Thou shall not kill...Unless it’s sanctioned by the State. Thou shall not steal... Unless it best serves the nationalistic interest. And this too exists by th...

I'll take Dan Rowden's suggestion and do these questions over here, David. I'm not sure what you are asking. What do you mean by "way of the pure determinist thinker"? Basic determinist thinking states the view that all things in the universe are governed by causal law ("determined by...

There are enough intelligent people here, Nick, such that I do not have to defend myself from your post, for their sake or mine.

DQ writes: . . . . they will still only end up as forgotten footnotes in the convoluted history of academia. Their names will be no more remembered than those medieval monks who slaved away anonymously in monastries arguing obscure theological points . . . . their work will seem just as archaic . . ...

What do you do exactly, may I ask? You work in a university, I presume? I'm a non-PhD, non-tenure track adjunct prof, a.k.a "maverick" "Roads Scholar" hit-and-run independent philosophy teacher. It is of my own idiot design, this vow of poverty, this freedom from the publish-or-...

I can say some things about academic philosophy because I am around the people who do it all the time. I can tell you that not one of them worth their salt takes their own self-referential business of academic writing seriously, at least not in the dogged way Nick Otani does. And not seriously in th...