tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post547328107064030160..comments2024-02-29T22:42:10.753-08:00Comments on Transcultural Buddhism: Sunyata - the emptiness of all thingsseanrobsvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01135048988031819619noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post-84308925478733706282016-04-27T15:43:28.889-07:002016-04-27T15:43:28.889-07:00Hi Jake,
Please go ahead and republish any article...Hi Jake,<br />Please go ahead and republish any articles from this site and also from my other blog at http://rational-buddhism.blogspot.com<br />Regards<br />Seanseanrobsvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01135048988031819619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post-29815242623355856032016-04-27T11:16:11.958-07:002016-04-27T11:16:11.958-07:00Hi Sean,
I'd like to republish this post and ...Hi Sean,<br /><br />I'd like to republish this post and a couple others from your blog on the site I manage, embodiedphilosophy.com. I was unable to find an email address for you so am leaving a request here instead. We are exploring Buddhism right now on the site, and I'm looking for insightful writers like yourself to present on the site. If you're interested in creating original work for the project as well, please let me know. You can reach me at hello@embodiedphilosophy.com.<br /><br />Thanks for your time.<br />Jacob Kylethe jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892967514887113801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post-21745910905033008142014-12-20T14:30:32.974-08:002014-12-20T14:30:32.974-08:00Great article. I especially like the Quantum expla...Great article. I especially like the Quantum explanation. I read recently that all quantum mechanics is really measuring is consciousness. I grasped it for a fleeting moment, and then it was gone (Im not trying to be clever)dr dan acupuncturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08124932580629144351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post-35402576767632466152013-07-02T12:11:18.597-07:002013-07-02T12:11:18.597-07:00What's the point? If everything is "empt...What's the point? If everything is "empty " can be broken down to it's smallest most complicated explanation and be true And we know it's possible because we are contemplating it with our minds, then where is the significance of the contemplation of the emptiness in the first place? Seems that this is a route to breaking down existence and matter to it's simplest form. But there's something else, energy that can't be created nor destroyed. Why is it? What is it? And humans most definitely are channeling it the wrong way. If there is one way or another. I'm not as smart as you! ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post-88554256184102784232011-06-19T04:41:52.046-07:002011-06-19T04:41:52.046-07:00Hi Jim, thanks for the comment. I've also post...Hi Jim, thanks for the comment. I've also posted one of your previous comments at the top of the blog. <br /><br />Regarding the difference that the three levels of dependency make to our view of the real world, they are especially useful in critiquing materialism, see <br /><b>Buddhism versus Computationalism in a nutshell</b> at <a href="http://seanrobsville.blogspot.com/2011/06/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving.html" rel="nofollow"> All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace </a> <br />- SRseanrobsvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01135048988031819619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post-48479122263093114312011-06-19T03:32:37.093-07:002011-06-19T03:32:37.093-07:00The reference to Platonic ideals and the explanati...The reference to Platonic ideals and the explanation of the hierarchy of the three levels of dependence were particularly useful. I hadn't considered that the "structural" is indeed more conceptual (subjective) than the "causal" dependency. <br /><br />In everyday psychological perception it may mean that the structual dependency is more "taken for granted" (i.e., we just assume that we understand how things can be decomposed into interconnected parts) than the causal dependency (which the mind goes to more easily through the faculty of inference), and thus the structural is more difficult to perceive (so more subtle). Whereas the imputation dependency is more hidden by the thought "well, sure, but that's just naming" (a rose by any other name), which makes it still harder to get at (still more subtle).<br /><br />This actually makes a diffence in the "real world" because people make conceptual errors in everyday business or social interaaction based on misperceived structural decomposition or mis-directing labels/names, and if one is able to better perceive these errors, there is greater capability to help guide the conversation to more accurate understanding of the situation.Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281154371181296475.post-73116782578139172462011-06-19T03:07:43.134-07:002011-06-19T03:07:43.134-07:00Nicely written, thanks. It helps make the "c...Nicely written, thanks. It helps make the "causal, structural, imputational" trichotomy easier to apply in everyday perception.Jimnoreply@blogger.com