A discussion on all aspects of Theravāda Buddhism
by danieLion » Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:37 am
daverupa wrote:If we resolve to say that empiricism, with the six senses, is a better descriptive fit than rationalism, then it is the case that we will be able to avoid certain misunderstandings of jhana and nibbana, the terms you've indicated. However, those words need their contexts in order to be fully understood; even a careful descriptive approach using Western philosophical categories will never quite 'square the circle'.
I now believe we are in accord.
"You stop me, obviously with a demand for a personal explanation. 'How is it, you write, 'that you reject with such immitigable scorn the very foundation-stones of Buddhism, and yet refer disciples enthusiastically to the technique of some of its subtlest super-structures?'
I laff."
-Aleister Crowley,
Magick Without Tears,
Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend,
The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
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