Probably the wrong crowd, but I really don't rate Buddhism, nor anything else.
Everything a Buddhist can do, I can do too. Everything I can do, they can do too. Excepting, perhaps, a lot of window dressing.
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The ontology of atman anatman is of as much concern to me as the ontology of free will:
No concern at all.
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If you atomize awakenings or realizations or insights into little tidbits of wisdom
- which I have no opinion on whether you should or not -
the awakening or realization or insight that words are intrinsically worthless really changes things.
A lot.
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The metamodern move is to acknowledge semiotics all the way down, but then decide to create meaning anyway in a pragmatic and inter-subjective sense.
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Much ado about noting, this.
You've got to start somewhere. A philosophical paradox is not a paralytic, any more than an autonomous drone will break down if you shout "I AM LYING" loud enough for its microphone to hear it.
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Ultimately, these philosophical exercises are only *really* interesting if they constitute the meat and potatoes of your practice.
But since you're not all hardcore Platonics, I fail to see why dialectic should be a preferred mode of reasoning.
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I'm a big fan of integrating self-inquiry with mindfulness, and dialectics fits into the former.
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Sure. I like to talk about practice, or I wouldn't be indulging in this word cake bake-off.
Point is, there comes a point where those arguments hit such diminishing returns, you ought to quit.
What are you experiencing? How clearly can you articulate that? This I care to know.