Big mystery: why do smart, skeptical reformers like Stephen Batchelor and Tom Pepper buy into the romantic myth of the “original Buddha”?
@vajramrita Yes… but they re-mythologize him to serve their own programs. Which is OK, but why not admit it? Cf. http://buddhism-for-vampires.com/necrophiliac-dakini …
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@Meaningness Pepper is pushing Badiou beyond his own arguments - event is specific to a situation, it's truth is unnameable - so no origin. -
@vajramrita That's an excellent point I hadn't thought of!
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@Meaningness as to why Pepper deliberately misinterprets both Badiou & even Nagajuna's philosophy of non-origin ... <shrug>Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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