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?
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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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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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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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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