What are best existing secular explanations of Buddhist three characteristics / which assumptions your brain learns are untrue when you do insight meditation? Writing something and want to see what's already been done. @Meaningness @misen__ @Failed_Buddhist @joogipupu @_awbery_
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Replying to @xuenay @Meaningness and
Interesting question. I look forward to reading what you come up with. I don’t really have much to say on top of what has been said by those better read than myself, but I’d suggest not taking any Buddhist system too seriously, as a teacher once said to me...(1)
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...’any explanation - whether from Shakyamuni, or some Dzogchen yogin - will always be somewhat in inverted commas.’ We can say certain things, but the answer is never quite coherent, never quite accurate...but that perhaps is preferable to not saying anything.(2)
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Yes, excellent! This is why I believe any reconstructed Buddhism has to be meta-systematic; no system can be credible as such anymore.
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No claim (e.g. about “the self”) can be credible in isolation, either. One has to explain its role in a conceptual context, and the limitations of that context.
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There’s no possibility of nailing down a transcendent Truth of No-Self outside a conceptual framework… which is precisely what modernist interpreters of the anatta doctrine try to make it do.
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There are actual experiences that get retroactively conceptually interpreted as No-Self, but…
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These are moderately important experiences, and have some shared nebulous characteristics, but trying to concretize them as a category in some psychological or metaphysical explanation is only going to distort the unique and transient reality of the experience.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao...
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