Why Evan Thompson Isn't a Buddhisthttps://www.lionsroar.com/evan-thompson-not-buddhist/ …
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @chagmed
I can't say whether you should care, since I don't know you. The title comes from people assuming I am, given my work, and from my philosophical dissatisfaction with modern Buddhist ideas. If you care about Buddhism in today's world, then I'd say, yes, you should care.
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E.g., if you think Buddhism is a rational-empirical religion (or not really a religion); that science shows there is no self, so Buddhists are right; or that awakening is a nonconceptual state, then you may want to read the book to find out why, in my view, those ideas are wrong
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @chagmed
Ah, well, I do criticize that way of thinking, too.
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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @chagmed
Well, there are the words you use to talk about it. If you speak, you can't help but enter into the critical arena.
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I argue in the book that any experience identified as an "awakening experience" is concept-dependent and so can't be a preconceptual state of being. So, yes, you need the experience (taste) but apart from concepts that give it meaning it's empty and meaningless
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