[MD] Nagarjuna and the MOQ

[MarshaV]

Greetings Ham,


On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Ham Priday wrote:

>> 
>> What you may be calling "conscious locus" I recognize as the
>> "silent witness" from meditating.  I sometimes call it "awareness",
>> which seems a better term within the mindfulness experience.
>> This is why I find an attraction to some of your posts.  I've often
>> wanted to ask if your Essentialism isn't more compatible with
>> Hindu philosophy with its Brahman and Atman.
> 
> Marsha, I haven't researched Hinduism or Buddhism for a long time, and I tend to put their meditative rituals and aphorisms in a class with New Age spiritualism, astrology, and belief in ghostly apparations.  Unlike you, I do not feel the need to align myself with an author simply because he/she writes pleasant-sounding euphemisms.  Philosophy is not an art form, and some discrimination must be exercised when considering what an "authority" wants you to believe.


Will you explain to me what you mean by "conscious locus"?   Where did your idea of consciousness come from?  Why do you believe it?   Maybe I've been all wrong in thinking the experience of "direct awareness" has any relationship to what you are calling  "conscious locus."      


Marsha 
 
 
 
 
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