Do you need a worldview to function in every-day life? What would it be like to live without one? Can you imagine it? Does that idea scare or comfort you?
It'd be more useful to think of it in terms of systems rather than categories. Being able to move in and out of systems, being able to fully inhabit a particular system without identifying with it, not taking any system as being able to provide an accurate map of all territories.
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yes. all realms of thinking are bounded, necessarily limited. all maps/knowledge are provisional, understood to be approximate, and never definitive.
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Exactly. Most people don't understand this, or at least don't behave as if they do. It's possible to not have to check in with one's favorite map every time something isn't understood, and you don't have to approach every problem via "what would my map have to say about this?".
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What's particularly dangerous is when Buddhism or elaborate concepts of non-duality become the only map one can navigate with. Buddhism simply doesn't contain the answers to everything, even though it has a lot of the answers to human suffering.
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the scope of Buddhist thinking and praxis is narrow - identifying the causes of dukkha and the release thereof. the minds of beings, however, are complicated. what should be a path to liberation becomes a religion.
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