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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Replying to @ShibumiKiDo @chagmed
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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Nope, I'm not reducing samadhi to language games: I don't say that samadhi is just a way of using words. As for Laruelle, I don't find any illumination there.
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1/2 Whether all concepts are linguistic is a question in itself; for many Buddhist philosophers and cognitive scientists, nonlinguistic recognitional capacities count as conceptual.
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2/2 some phenomena are concept-dependent (that doesn't mean they are concepts): love, games and yes, awakening are, in my view, concept-dependent phenomena
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So, now you are just caricaturing what I'm saying. If you really want to know what I think, then you'll have to read what I actually say.
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