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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    1. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Mar 16

      To spin Buddhism as a way to win is funny to me. It simply isn't defensible by reading primary Buddhist texts. 1/

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    2. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Mar 16

      Worse still, the desperate clinging to the hope that we will win is exactly what prevents us from the only real comfort available to us while still alive. 2/

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    3. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Mar 16

      To feel the experience of this moment as it is, without the overlay of hope or despair; this is the only awakeness. 3/

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    4. Kenneth Folk‏ @KennethFolk Mar 16

      To equate nibbana with "enlightenment" is a misunderstanding. If we think nibbana is is something that can happen to us, we haven't understood it at all. 4/

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    5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 17
      Replying to @KennethFolk

      Yes. "Enlightenment" is a western invention.

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    6. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 17
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @KennethFolk

      um... no

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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 17
      Replying to @chagmed @KennethFolk

      What I mean is the translation of "bodhi" as "enlightenment", and the connotations that go along with that word, are a recent development. "Enlightenment" has specific connotations given its usage in other contexts, whereas "waking up" is more nuanced. Do you disagree with that?

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        2. Sindre‏ @Triquetrea Mar 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed @KennethFolk

          Yes.

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 17
          Replying to @Triquetrea @chagmed @KennethFolk

          Sorry, what specifically do you disagree with?

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        4. Sindre‏ @Triquetrea Mar 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed @KennethFolk

          That the quibbling over terminology is in any way ameliorated by... more quibbling over terminology. You're using a hammer to flatten a dough.

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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 17
          Replying to @Triquetrea @chagmed @KennethFolk

          Well of course this comes down to semantics. Semantics actually matter, though. When people use specific words that have specific connotations, it matters whether those connotations are valid or useful.

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        6. Sindre‏ @Triquetrea Mar 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed @KennethFolk

          Not what was entailed. I agree semantics matter. Connotations, too Yet, the disagreement is phenomenological, not semantic. You can redefine, but it won't clarify.

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        7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 17
          Replying to @Triquetrea @chagmed @KennethFolk

          I don't disagree with that. Ultimately, phenomenology can't be clarified through redefining. It can, however, attempt to clear up some amount of confusion, if only a little bit of it.

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        8. Sindre‏ @Triquetrea Mar 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed @KennethFolk

          The mistake is thinking "awakening", "waking up" & "enlightenment" even should connotate the same way to different people. Nothing else works like that. There are always more entailments.

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        9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 17
          Replying to @Triquetrea @chagmed @KennethFolk

          Well anyone can mean whatever they want by anything, sure. But if we're talking about what something means in the context of Buddhism specifically - presumably using the pali canon as an authoritative text - then some connotations are more accurate than others.

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