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Replying to @rivatez
Interesting. I find both the "accept the world as is" and "bend the world to your will" to be equally nihilistic. Two sides of the same psychopathology. The integrative approach seems to me to be seek increasing entanglement with the universe.
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The Buddhist non-dualism of understanding that both perspectives are points of view and “true” in their own sense. It’s possible to see without abstraction and accept what happens. It’s possible to understand and change the world. Like you say, trying to elevate one is error.
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Yes, this is close to my view, though I have some differences with the buddhist view. Entanglement for the psyche is the opposite of alienation. At once distinct from, and at one with, the universe. I haven't yet fully worked it out. Might end up writing about it at some point.
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I think alienation is what comes along with an attachment to the self. A hypothesized self must be set apart from the world, creating the alienation.
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Yes, that's the consensus view across both west and east. Fits both freudian/jungian conceptions and buddhist ones. I don't find it entirely satisfying. It forces a separate/subsumed either-or notion of being that I think is wrong.
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I think that’s what motivates “non-dual”. It’s two things but it’s also not.

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