As an outsider to Theravada-derived practice, it’s questionable for me to express doubts about it. However, I’ve had serious reservations for a decade or more, as I’ve occasionally written. Due to both ignorance and wanting to avoid sectarianism, I’ve avoided being too explicit.
Overview here. It's the introduction to a chapter that's only about 20% written but you can probably get the gist. I think my usage is pretty much in line with the Western philosophical tradition's, and not far from the Madhyamaka conception either.https://meaningness.com/nihilism
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Thanks. It’s too much to get into here. But real quick. Of course there are numerous philosophical takes on nihilism. Mine is that it does not entail a denial or loss of meaning: it entails a refusal to posit ultimate grounds for ones (unavoidable) construal of meaning.
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Oh, well, in that case I’m a committed nihilist :) But generally that’s “anti-foundationalism” rather than “nihilism” in Western philosophical terminology, isn’t it? Very different positions, although eternalists want to conflate them.
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I'd be curious to hear how your usage differs?
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in 100 years; Dzogchen will probably be extinct.