Ok.Dennis Mahar wrote:dependent origination fixes nihilism.
newsflash!
you lack inherent existence.
What doesn't lack inherent existence ?
Even Emptiness is Empty.
Now what ?
Ok.Dennis Mahar wrote:dependent origination fixes nihilism.
newsflash!
you lack inherent existence.
Dennis Mahar wrote:Non-duality is fact.
Duality is theory.
As David says,
no boundaries anywhere.
How can it be possible to trivialise someone whose tonic note is that everything is meaningless? Your bite is meaningless, and so is your boat.Dennis Mahar wrote:love to you dear.
apologies for hurt.
don't trivialise me.
I bite back.
we're in the same boat.
forget it.
I'll thank you to speak for yourself.Dennis Mahar wrote:All is empty.
Every thought, feeling, sensation is a play of causality.
Now, I have not done all the backreading here yet, so perhaps if willing, you could respond in your way if anything of the above is in alignment with your thinking. It's problematic, I realize: is 'nothingness' the same as 'meaninglessness'; how are 'knowledge' and 'meaning' related (or not); how is 'nothingness' itself grasped, groked; is 'logic' excluded from the realm of meaning-making, etc. not to mention the overall problem of presenting you with a definition (meaning) in response to meaninglessness. I'd be interested in your thoughts to any/all of these things, if thoughts are possible to express without any meaning attendant to them . . . .nihilism (L., nihil, "nothing"). Literally, nothingness. 1. In epistemology, the denial of any objective and real ground or state of truth. 2. The theory that nothing is knowable. All knowledge is illusory, worthless, meaningless, relative, and insignificant. 3. No knowledge is possible. Nothing can be known. 4. The psychological and philosophical state in which there is a loss of all ethical, religious, political, social values. 5. The skeptical denial of all that is regarded as real/unreal, knowledge/error, being/nonbeing, illusory/nonillusory; the denial of all value distinctions.
Says who?Dennis Mahar wrote:if we fail to define a purpose, our lives are left meaningless.
I think I have admitted as much. I know nothing. I will bet my nothing is bigger than your nothing.What do you know Basil?
You know nothing.
Less than zero, in fact. And because you are intelligent and consistent, you are aware the same applies to yourself.You'll come up with sentences and paragraphs that amount to zilch.
Well, shit - I don't live in a war zone, give me a break. Many whom I have loved have been taken from me, but the dead bodies I have gazed on have yet to produce a single tear.Those you love will be taken from you, you will gaze on their dead bodies and be met with profound silence as tears fall down your cheeks.
I may not know, but you certainly don't. Listen to yourself. Absurd, stupid, and insane. These are the words you choose to characterize the "situation," by which you mean life. Absurd compared to what? Stupid compared to what? Insane compared to what? Whatever you choose to fill in the blanks, is that not also a part of life?An absurd,
stupid,
insane situation,
and you 'don't know'.
In 1990, the noted sinologist Victor H. Mair translated the Ma-wang-tui version as he considered this earliest known version (by 500 years) to be far more authentic than the most commonly translated texts.Kunga wrote:btw...the one i just quoted from is based on the Ma-Wang-Tui Manuscripts (by Victor H. Mair)
cousinbasil wrote:What happened? Did someone you care about just die?
The fact of 'don't know' renders the situation absurd, stupid, insane that generates Stories.I may not know, but you certainly don't. Listen to yourself. Absurd, stupid, and insane. These are the words you choose to characterize the "situation," by which you mean life. Absurd compared to what? Stupid compared to what? Insane compared to what? Whatever you choose to fill in the blanks, is that not also a part of life?
What you've said there is causes/conditions.That's what mirrors are for?