no illegal downloading does not. poor people must have access to that material as well. if they do not and are forced to download it illegally, then this is only because government has failed to procure relevant taxes to enable universal access.

Here's one way of describing the experiment: Pay close enough attention to the nature of your own mind--to the flow of thoughts, moods, sensations, and perceptions in the present--and you can notice that the feeling of being a self, an ego, a thinker of thoughts in the midst of experience, is an il...

because then you are asserting a person who is independent of its parts. in other words you are asserting a self to persons. Why can't one posit a self ( in a sense of empiric person such as: John or Jack ) that cannot be without its parts, but its parts can change like parts of a river. if the per...

'you' are a particular set of mental dispositions and habits in a human mind. just as your name will end, the thing that that name refers to, namely those mental dispositions in your human mind, will also end. however due to causes and conditions the final moment of mind in this lifetime will act as...

Why can't we say that Self has the body, feelings, etc which change? Even though these change, it is still the same person. Jack doesn't become John the next moment, Jane the third moment and Andrew the fourth moment. There is continuity of person from cradle to grave even though body and specific ...

Hee, hee. Does this make the Theravadins quasi-Madhyamakas? Or worse, might that be why Karunadasa has suggested elsewhere that the Theravadins "flirted" with Idealism? not even slightly. the wrong appearance of 'own-nature' being denied here is something extremely coarse. for example chairs appear...

sorry for the delay

Noam Chomsky: University of Connecticut Commencement Speech (1999)

Chomsky on Mind Body Problem

and the main one:
Linguistics & Philosophy.mp3

Ah, so you plainly expose your bias. i am suggesting that you should present your position in a graded manner that makes sense and is of use to ppl. . . . another cool part of studying the indian tenet system presented by ppl like Bhavaviveka . . . . Again, you expose you bias annd your willing ign...

Obviously "No ultimately existent ontological realities" is an ontological claim which is unnecessary and cannot be established. thats not true even if pretend that 1) we have no ignorance 2) our ignorance does not pertain to objects and other people this is because we are part of the world and so ...

My impression from listening to Ven Nananada's Nibbana Sermons is that, though his angle is certainly conceptual proliferation, being fooled by the movie or the magic show, he seems careful not to fall into nihilism by specifically denying the existence of anything in particular. It seems to me tha...

Ah, so you plainly expose your bias. i am suggesting that you should present your position in a graded manner that makes sense and is of use to ppl. the main part of whats great about the indian tenet system is just the fact that it is graded. if you dont present graded material, noone will care ab...

The real problem lies within the views of spiritism contrasted with those of Buddha Dhamma. Buddha asserted persons which function, which collect karma, are born and die, etc. not appearances of persons and appearances of suffering people. likewise, the 4 arya truths are not appearances of truths a...

To posit something existing that is not a material process, yet interacts with matter, requires the following assumptions to be made: you never actually studied buddhism so its no wonder you dont have a clue what youre talking about. buddhism doesnt assert that we should stick on heads in the sand....

Material things are all we can be certain of existing. To posit the existence of anything else requires assumptions to be made. you should really think about that over and over. its an amazing thing to say. as noam chomsky puts it, "what mind-body problem? we already got rid of the mechanical view ...

tiltbillings wrote:

5heaps wrote:they [tenet system] should all be studied.

Not at all. The Theravada is a complete path of practice which does not need the tenet system.

yes, and its essential to the world. hopefully it will survive the next 50 years. ours will, since we go step by step by step [through graded tenets].