I do as well. I also think of Mara looking on the Buddha after, and wondering: has desire changed, or does this one not have a heart?https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1245837701372313600 …
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The peacefulness & equanimity is important. But so for me is the element of immediate empiricism, a sober honesty. When in the story Mara demands to know by what authority the Buddha understands himself enabled to pursue awakening, Buddha just reaches down and touches the earth.pic.twitter.com/x12jeBEFRc
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It's a many-sided topic, but for me language that's mythic & poetic isn't anti-empiricist when it's understood as celebration of, and guidance for, an empiric experiential practice. As in the Kalama Sutta, in the end, the Buddha-teaching is effectively "go and look for yourself."
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Precisely: Vijñāna->Jñāna. Lusthaus describes it thus: "stepping back from consciousness' appropriational circuit, losing the vi-jñāna that distances itself from things in order to make them appropriatable, so that jñāna—direct, immediate cognition, shorn of the vi—emerges."
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Etymologically, jñāna and gnosis share the same root. This is a "knowing" that transcends the empirical sphere.
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This is really a interesting claim given some other stuff I’ve been trying to think through
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Buddhist Phenomenology by Dan Lusthaus (as well as practices and perspectives ranging from Dzogchen to its East Asian parallels) really shifted the gears for me. I'd imagine you've read it already, but I'd highly recommend it to any who are interested in such matters (& minds).
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Replying to @NoaidiX @ShibumiKiDoZen and
I have, but it’s been a while and I should probably go back and read it again!
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