[MD] Taboo and even more taboo

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi DMB, your mail was simply two statements, so not sure what your
purpose was ... or whether it related to anyone else's point(s) ?

They're true enough.

The first one - yes, but even the Buddha, handling a gold "object" of
value (beyond its gold content) would take care not to destroy that
value, when heating , rubbing, cutting, etc. ("We murder to dissect" -
with Aristotle's analytic knife, said Wordsworth, )

The second one - yes, but the point is that logical consistency is
about relations involving the "objects" chosen. Choose the wrong
objects - or even objects at all - and direct experienced reality may
not look so logical expressed in those objective terms. Logical
consistency has its limitations.

Ian

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:18 AM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> If my sources are right, the Buddha said:
> "Just as the wise accept gold after testing it by heating, cutting and rubbing it, so are my words to be accepted after examining them, but not out of respect for me."
> And, similarly, the Dali Lama said:
> "A general stance of Buddhism is that it is inappropriate to hold a view that is logically inconsistent. This is taboo. But even more taboo than holding a view that is logically inconsistent is holding a view that goes against direct experience."
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