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Do these words not speak of the final reduction of knower and known, and thus a going beyond knowing to a kind of not-knowing. As the Upanishads ask, who is there to understand the understander? The … (View Post)
I'd like to add, and it seems important, that the earlier comment that many years of work would be required before noticeable results can be achieved is overstating the case. It may often be true, or… (View Post)
In addition, it may be that in a previous life the kid was in an even worse situation but earned himself a better life this time, just not a perfect one. We see him as suffering because of Karma, but… (View Post)
(Quote) I'm with you all the way @Riverflow. I learnt about Christianity, which I once rejected as a lot of nonsense, from Buddhism. Stoicism also. Both now seem perfectly consistent with Buddhism. O… (View Post)
I'm not sure the typing thing would be relevant. Epistemilogically-speaking Buddhism seems to be bang in line with Aristotle, who concluded that 'true knowledge is identical with its object'. To me t… (View Post)