[MD] Indeterminism
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ununoctiums at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 10:26:43 PDT 2011
Hi Marsha,
"A stitch in time, saves nine"
Cheers,
Mark
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:10 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Hello Mark,
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> "As we’ve seen, there is a second type of view, that the Buddha called right view. Right view is not a concept or belief. In fact, it’s no particular thing at all. Right view is simply seeing Reality as it is, here and now, moment after moment. It’s relying on bare attention --- naked awareness of what is before conceptual thought arises. It’s relying on what we actually experience rather than on what we think.
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> "If we are to ever find certitude --- real _knowledge_ that is beyond all doubt and misunderstanding --- it’s clearly not going to come from our vying concepts and beliefs. Rather, true knowledge must appear before all our ideas and opinions. In other words, it’s nothing other than immediate, direct experience of the world in and of itself. True knowledge is seeing thus.
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> "Seeing thus is the unshakable ground we long for simply because it cannot be doubted. Herein lies freedom of mind. And herein lies fearlessness as well."
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> (Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, pp. 112-113)
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> Cheers,
> Marsha
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