The great Buddhist and Stoic error. All life is mixture of tragedy and 'enjoyment' of life. The cold/calculated 'apprehension' of life's realities is what leads to psychophatic behaviour.https://twitter.com/NIETZSCHESOURCE/status/1030758117498179584 …
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Replying to @muchiniwam
This isn't all forms of Buddhism and Stoicism.
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I've developed a strong preference to pluralize the word Buddhism(s) when discussing it. It's such a common error by many people not familiar with it to assume there is a central sect or authority or even unifying narrative behind it where there is not one.
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Pluralising like that also shifts away from perennial type thought which might assert Buddhism - or any human made religious tradition - is at core the same absolute truth or essence. These are human traditions w/ different contexts & practices. We're lost if we forget that.
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yes, that's an excellent point. the more I engage with this stuff the more appreciation I gain for the importance of acknowledging context and the importance of cultural containers and traditions. As much as I like Huxley, "Perennial Philosophy" is utopian ideal at best.
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and a harmful distraction at worse. imagining that we are pursuing an eternal hyper-reality instead of engaging with our own selves in our own time and place and people and culture is yet another turn in the garden of forking paths.
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