What are best existing secular explanations of Buddhist three characteristics / which assumptions your brain learns are untrue when you do insight meditation? Writing something and want to see what's already been done. @Meaningness @misen__ @Failed_Buddhist @joogipupu @_awbery_
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I'm unhappy with all the ones that I've seen. I think they all either try to 1) give an intellectual argument for e.g. "why there's no self", which runs into people turning it into an intellectual argument and having disputes of how the self should be defined. Point: missed.
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Or 2) they avoid that trap by only giving pointers to what you should investigate in your own experience, which is correct, but fails to persuade skeptics who are wondering what the point in this whole thing is. E.g. https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-i-the-fundamentals/5-the-three-characteristics/ … is good but like this.
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I want an explanation that avoids these traps by doing both 1) *and* 2).
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It should explain which assumptions build up our default understanding of reality, how those assumptions are wrong, and point out aspects from our experience whose repeated observation will update those assumptions, explaining how this causes psychological change in meditator.
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Also explain how impermanence, no-self and unsatisfactoriness are all interrelated and connected with each other in a way that your average Western science-minded, allergic-to-mysticism reader can understand. Ideally dependent origination too.
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I'm writing something, but feel like I'm mostly building it from scratch. Surely there must be existing attempts to do this, by people further along the path of insight than I am? Pointers welcome.
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Check this piece for example: http://unfetteredmind.org/pointers-doors-and-openings/ … I suspect the notion of "average Western science-minded, allergic-to-mysticism reader" will limit possibilities significantly.
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