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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. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22

      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?

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    2. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      worldviews are helpful, e.g., that is a bus, don't stand in front of it while it's moving

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22
      Replying to @chagmed

      Agreed. We can distinguish between contextual worldviews versus absolute worldviews. If I'm working in the lab, then having a scientific worldview is useful. If I don't want to get hit by a bus, then having a model of buses as things that can kill me is useful.

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    4. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed

      In that sense it's generally useful to have a bunch of worldviews up your sleeve that you can access as needed, without attaching to or identifying with any particular one as *my* worldview which is ultimately or absolutely *the* right one.

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    5. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      please provide an example of worldview swapping and how it's useful

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    6. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22
      Replying to @chagmed

      This applies even when working on a purely scientific problem. Robert Sapolsky put it really well in this video (the entire course is great, btw, I'd highly recommend it).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhnfzmSB8i8 …

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    7. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      what he describes as a bucket sounds like a level of granularity. in addition, don't know that it's possible to decide to not think in terms of categories.

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    8. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
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      I can understand this in terms of not getting stuck in a categorical paradigm, being aware, e.g, of the limits of a strictly genetic approach, but I have no idea, outside of meditation, how one steps out of all categories.

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    9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22
      Replying to @chagmed

      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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    10. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

      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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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22
      Replying to @chagmed

      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?".

      7:03 PM - 22 Mar 2018
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        2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @chagmed

          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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        3. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          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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        2. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          yes, and yet, to consult a category, human clinging to models of experience may have given our species an edge. the shadow of that evolutionary heritage is that models can cause us pain, and cause us to hurt others.

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Mar 22
          Replying to @chagmed

          True. Without the ability to construct and consult models we probably wouldn't be where we are today. Evolution apparently couldn't trust us to use categories without making us believe in them absolutely. Fair trade-off from its POV; evolution couldn't care less about suffering.

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        4. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Mar 22
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          Agreed, and yet, it's possible to engage the machinery bequeathed to us, and use it to ask profound questions about the nature of mind and experience. further, it's possible to engage this pursuit without religion.

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