[MD] Keep on duckin'

[MarshaV]

On May 28, 2011, at 11:38 AM, david buchanan wrote:

> dmb says:  
> Again, I'll remind you that you repeatedly cited an enthusiastic William James fan to dispute William James. The quotes you post as evidence for your notion of reification do not support that notion at all. 


Marsha:


Please note Alan Wallace in the first quote states that reification is a central issue in Buddhism:  


"There are different domains of relativity ...  Such truths are contingent upon perspective.  This routes us back to a central issue of Buddhism:  reification.  Reification is taking something that is true relative to ourselves and believing it to be true independently of ourselves."
     (Wallace, B. Alan, Buddhism with an Attitude, p.138)


    "Even when the mind is settled in meditative stabilization without human conceptual constructs, it is not considered by Buddhist contemplatives to be entirely free of all traces of conceptualization.  One's inborn sense of a reified self as the observer and the reified sense of the duality between subject and object are still present, even though they may be dormant while in meditation; and when one emerges from this nonconceptual state, the mind may still grasp onto all phenomena, including consciousness itself, as being real, inherently existing entities.  To penetrate to the fundamental nature of appearances and their relation to consciousness, it is said that one must go beyond meditative stabilization and engage in training for the cultivation of contemplative insight."  
    (Wallace, B. Alan, 'The Taboo of Subjectivity: Towards a New Science of Consciousness', p.112)  












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