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Mount Sumeru/Magnetic field - #2

federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
edited April 2016 in Philosophy
This discussion was created from comments split from: what is the mount sumeru? is that possible it is earth's magnetic field?.

@NatashasGhost , please see here. Thanks. :)

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  • NatashasGhostNatashasGhost US New

    I came to this website because of a search for both Mount Sumeru and the earth's magnetic field. While I was reading the Lotus Sutra the consilience struck me as well. It often seems that people in vastly different fields of human endeavor are talking about the same aspects of reality from different perspectives, using different dictionaries, doesn't it?

    If all consciousness is capable of omniscience, and being attached/being adverse to any particular perspective is dukkha, are both the scientific and the Buddhist descriptions equally dukkha?

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    All compounded phenomena are impermanent, subject to change and therefore under the general umbrella that perceives all unskilful attachments as 'dukkha'.

  • lobsterlobster Crusty Veteran

    @NatashasGhost said:

    If all consciousness is capable of omniscience,

    Is it?

    and being attached/being adverse to any particular perspective is dukkha,

    How so?

    are both the scientific and the Buddhist descriptions equally dukkha?

    Descriptions are not dukkha.
    'That is a cat', is not dukkha. 'That is a sentient being', is not dukkha.

    person
  • JeroenJeroen Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter Netherlands Veteran

    The wording is interesting, "attached to a perspective". Taken word for word, being attached is bad. But being attached and using are not the same, one can discuss a particular perspective's views for many beneficial reasons. The problem comes when you are so attached to a single perspective that you begin to love it, elevating its perceptions above another perspective even if that other perspective might contain more truth.

    person
  • ZeroZero Veteran
    edited April 2016

    @NatashasGhost said:
    It often seems that people in vastly different fields of human endeavor are talking about the same aspects of reality from different perspectives, using different dictionaries, doesn't it?

    Two bodies in motion may be subject to prediction - three is chaos and unpredictable - a hint to the close borders of cognisance.
    The difference is vast when the view is narrow.

  • LionduckLionduck Veteran

    I was about to launch into a whole 'perspective' thing, but...

    Hot cocoa or cold coffee, take your choice.

    Dang! 'Nother case of severe caffeine withdrawl. :3

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