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How do we 'know' that the experience we assign as 'realizing conditionality' is a correct perception? For example I could fantasize about snow melting, changing, flowers opening, and have all these examples kind of on a 'forced march' to learn wha…
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Why does a conditional mind necessarily have the conditions to recognize that it is conditional? I don't think that it "necessarily" does. A conditional mind starts out without the conditions to recognize that it is conditional -- I'd think that wou…
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Doesn't this mean that there is no sense in which it is "you" that is reborn in a future life? Ultimately, yes; conventionally speaking, not so much. So with the above, taken with what you say below it, about relinking consciousness, do I understa…
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My understanding from the Theravadin point of view (or at least from the point of view of those in Theravada who accept the idea of postmortem rebirth), is that rebirth is viewed as the continuation of a process—nothing 'remains,' nothing 'transmigr…
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I honestly can't fathom the fascination we conjure up with trying to understand how karma carries from one not-self to some other not-self in the future. Practice is about what we can see in the present, isn't it? To me that's what Skeptical Buddh…
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Ah, I see, only *after* I post and am out of edit does the attribution to my blockquotes show up. Ah well, better safe than sorry.
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Hmmm, blockquote tags aren't working very well for me, so I'll put the name of the person I'm quoting first. Cinorjer: The only real question I have in all this is, can someone call agnostic a valid position, or are we avoiding a difficult choice? …
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Hi all. Nice thread. Sorry I'm coming late to the party. I wish we could come up with a better, more positive term for "Skeptical" Buddhism, since it emphasizes what people like me do NOT believe, rather than what I DO believe (the basic 4/8 etc) I'…