[MD] patterns of dependence

[Tuukka Virtaperko]

Thanks, Marsha
these are useful
I'll remember them
-Tuukka

30.1.2012 14:24, MarshaV kirjoitti:
> There is no such thing as the subject that thinks or entertains ideas. — LudwigWittgenstein
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> "Ludwig Wittgenstein has succinctly expressed what became one of the central challenges of Indian Buddhist thought: One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I,' particularly when it is used in representing immediate experience, as in 'I can see red a patch.' It would be instructive to replace this way of speaking by another in which immediate experience would be represented without using the personal pronoun.  Indian Buddhist philosophy addresses the same issue, but for the purpose of liberating sentient beings from such 'misleading' notions as an 'I,' and our bondage to this world of repetitive behavioral patterns—i.e. samsara—that such ignorance entails. To this end, Buddhist philosophy attempts to articulate not only how we can usefully speak about immediate experience without reference to internal subjects (ātman), but also how we can account for the genesis of this 'world of experience' without recourse to supernatural agencies. These two notions, that of no-self (anātman) and the dependent arising of the world (pratītya-samutpāda) through its own interactive processes alone, are arguably the most distinctive features of the traditional Indian Buddhist world view. Yet as any teacher of Buddhism knows, these ideas, and their subtle implications, seem extraordinarily difficult to comprehend. We are so bound by our ingrained notions of selves, substances and entities that denying them seems to defy common-sense.
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> "This is the conceptual framework, the causal syntax if you will, within which most earlier Buddhist analyses of mind took place. It is an approach to describing and understanding experience as it arises. It is, in a word, a phenomenology of consciousness. In order to appreciate this perspective and its larger implications for Buddhist philosophies of mind, we will examine the arising of vijñāna, of 'discerning cognitive awareness,' or simply, consciousness."
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