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by yadave
Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:26 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Shared Reality
Replies: 4
Views: 1661

Re: Shared Reality

Namdrol wrote: Appearances that function are shared reality. We do not need to assert anything other than that.
My lips are sealed.

Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,
Dave.
by yadave
Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:51 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Shared Reality
Replies: 4
Views: 1661

Re: Shared Reality

I have a simple explanation for shared reality, you do not. Sure I do: functionality. I would enjoy a better (lay person's) understanding of Buddhist functionality and how it relates to or explains shared reality. You will find it by running a search on arthakriya and its interpretation by Chandrak...
by yadave
Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:11 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Shared Reality
Replies: 4
Views: 1661

Shared Reality

I have a simple explanation for shared reality, you do not. Sure I do: functionality. Hi all, Namdrol, I can't find much on "Buddhist functionality" on- or offline. I see a theory of functionalism in philosophy of mind but think you refer to something else here. If you or anyone has a min...
by yadave
Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:22 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Understanding emptiness
Replies: 145
Views: 27723

Re: Understanding emptiness

So, why do I label a car as car? Instead of a lion. I see it as a machine not a giant animal. Wouldn't that mean there is something from the car's own side to make it a car? perhaps we can for the moment agree that there is something on the side of the object--but what is that thing? is it "li...
by yadave
Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:25 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Buddhist ethics and BDSM?
Replies: 134
Views: 35248

Re: Buddhist ethics and BDSM?

These topics are fun. They make you think and are more visceral than a debate over sutras. Seems to me the best sex and intimacy is proportional to my vulnerability, openness, awakeness. Perhaps, especially for men who are culturally encouraged not to cry from youth, being tied up helps one feel vul...
by yadave
Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:13 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: 2 types of selflessness
Replies: 30
Views: 9750

Re: 2 types of selflessness

when mine exists, me seems to exist. when mine ceases it is because there is no longer a subjective experience of me to have any kind of possession. in my daily experience i realize that i am 'not'. Which means that "emptiness of phenomena" is a proper subset of "emptiness of self&qu...
by yadave
Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:13 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

You know what is interesting? If you put two points (dots) on the hand of a clock, one at the outer tip of the clock hand, and one near the center of the clock, the point nearer to the outer tip of a hand moves much, much faster than a point near the center, even though they are both moving at the ...
by yadave
Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:39 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

Hey Padma, That sounds excellent. One more thought on motion before I return to tax tables. In a normal frame of reference, where the clock is ticking, "motion" refers to a change in position of A relative to B. In an artificial frame of reference, where time is frozen, "motion" ...
by yadave
Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:10 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

Still, this "emptiness of motion" feels more like a neat trick than something profound. I cannot remember ever thinking of "motion" as an eternal thing, or something that "movers" possessed. Perhaps these concepts were prevalent in Indian philosophy and Nagarjuna is dec...
by yadave
Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:03 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: 2 types of selflessness
Replies: 30
Views: 9750

Re: 2 types of selflessness

Okay, I just want to make sure I have this correct concerning the two types of selflessness. Hopefully someone can help. So there are the selflessness of self and the selflessness of phenomena. Is it that the selflessness of phenomena refers specifically to the 5 aggregates? You also could have say...
by yadave
Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:10 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

You caught my sense Tom, it was about the ball, MMK CH2:1 is about the rolling. Gad's reference is good. It highlights that CH2:1, like Zeno's Paradox, depends on a concept of continuous space, where we can imagine motion at a dimensionless point on a line and conclude that 1) there is no motion in...
by yadave
Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:24 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

There is no basis for saying that something is moving, apart from something which has not moved or has moved. If you are familiar with the argument rejecting motion in the MMK than all of this is old hat. I don't disagree, you are basically just quoting MMK CH2:1, my point is just that this verse i...
by yadave
Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:00 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

Hey Sunshine, Glad you had fun at zoo. My daughter is in CA, spent many enjoyable years in your neck of the woods, will ping you if I get out that way. We could probably take a break from this, thought experiments may not agree with all readers and I need to tackle taxes, the true ultimate existent....
by yadave
Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:45 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

That's cool they revisited that! Hey Sunshine, Your piece is more of a pointing out piece than Candrakirti's SevenFold Reasoning methinks. There is one mod we may want to make, which should be fine since you disclaimed everything at the start. The conclusion that the colors are external to us is ba...
by yadave
Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:26 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

Yes, Cone. It may have been better to keep my mouth shut. Your reply contains so many issues, enough for another thread, and we're already close to crashing the server with this one (woo hoo!). Anyway, stumbling through another read of sunshine's piece and wanted to include this modern article on Wi...
by yadave
Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:50 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

That reminds me of a thread that Namdrol once started in E-Sangha that started off a real atom of posts - the original post being something very terse like "Reality is a cognitive error". People went a bit crazy - it was very amusing. :rolling: "Sentient beings are nothing more than ...
by yadave
Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:07 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

Aside from our conceptualizations about experience, experience itself communicates nothing. Sunshine, your phenomenological inquiry is amazing, Much better than the Candrakirti Seven Points of Thinking piece we started with. You could write a book. I am going to practice it in more depth and first ...
by yadave
Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:00 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

Cone, your posts are all clear, thanks. I especially like your description of differences between Madhyamaka and Mahamudra and surely must dig into a good Thrangu Rinpoche Madhyamaka text, when time permits, judging from the amount I've blathered on. Some quick thoughts here, hopefully with a simila...
by yadave
Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:39 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

When I buy a head of lettuce, I typically don't name it George or George-The-Lettuce-Head. The very notion does not show up in my modern framework of experience. "Self" is not something that arises for me when thinking of lettuce or salt. Really? Do you ever think of it as "my lettuc...
by yadave
Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:56 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Misunderstanding emptiness
Replies: 370
Views: 76560

Re: Misunderstanding emptiness

When I buy a head of lettuce, I typically don't name it George or George-The-Lettuce-Head. The very notion does not show up in my modern framework of experience. "Self" is not something that arises for me when thinking of lettuce or salt. Really? Do you ever think of it as "my lettuc...

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