Questions tagged [buddhism]
a religion of eastern and central Asia that is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha
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Is Logic Empirical?
We use the logical system that we know from observations (empirical data) holds true in the world we live in (please correct me if I am wrong). Hence the axioms of logic we choose are themselves ...
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Different between Buddhism and Solipsism
What is the difference between Buddhism, Hinduism and Solipsism? Do all these religion say that other people have no mind's? If all these religions are like solipsism, then are all Chinese and Hindus ...
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Is Nothing actually imaginable?
It's possible to imagine something, for example a table, we see one everyday and can bring it in front of our minds eye (although it's a moot point whether we can see it - I certainly don't). But of ...
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Does Buddhism espouse reincarnation?
If Buddhism asserts "anatta" (no-self), then must it also assert that there is no re-incarnation for lack of a soul to persist over time?
I don't know how to square this doctrine of no-self &...
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Descartes vs Buddha - Was Descartes wrong?
Descartes imagined an Evil Demon to suggest that the external world could be a complete illusion. This Evil Demon would have the power to trick all your senses. This idea is similar to the Buddhist ...
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Is there a relation between postmodernism and Asian philosophies?
As an Asian, I see that postmodernism and Taoism and Buddhism all share a similar idea: the truth cannot be grasped. Is there any relation between postmodernism and Asian philosophies? Can Laozi and ...
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Is Belnap's four-valued logic technically a relevance logic?
Belnap, the American Logician, constructed a four-valued logic which is a form of relavance logic; interestingly the truth-values it takes are:
true
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both true & false
neither true nor ...
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Is Buddhism antinatalist?
I was listening to a discussion with David Benatar, and the point that Buddhism seems to be antinatalist was raised. It seems that people argue this both ways. Can Buddhism be said to be antinatalist? ...
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Are there specifically Buddhist arguments against the eternal return of the same?
Are there specifically Buddhist arguments against the eternal return of the same?
There seems like there should be. However, I'm highly confused by what a "final nirvana", complete extinction, could ...
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How do Chinese and Japanese Buddhists perceive people?
I have seen many answers to similar questions, but they do not answer my question.
The fact is that the Mahayana doctrine (which is popular in China and Japan) leads to Nihilism or Solipsism.
I asked ...
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How valid is Nietzsche's critique of Buddhism?
According to a paper titled Nietzsche's Reception of Buddhist Psychology With Constant Reference to Christianity by McDonald (2012), given at a conference in Copenhagen, Nietzsche's work contains 158 ...
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How might studying philosophy impact your mental health?
According to wikipedia on Pessimism and Pragmatic Criticism
...Al-Ghazali and William James rejected their pessimism after suffering
psychological, or even psychosomatic illness...
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How does catuskoti apply to everyday life?
An article on Aeon published the concept of catuskoti, a principle in use during the age of Buddha. It states that for any given statement, there are four possibilities i.e. it might be true (and ...
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Can there be Creation Ex Nihilo?
In Christian & Islamic Theology, one could argue that there can't be Creation Ex Nihilo since 'before' Creation there was God.
In Philosophical Naturalism (which is not Physicalism - it subsumes ...
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Is extra-sensory perception considered a valid source of knowledge in any Western branch of philosophy?
I have read that some Eastern philosophies, such as Buddhist philosophy, have considered extra-sensory perception (as attained through meditation), a valid source of knowledge. For example, the Buddha ...
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Understanding "Emptiness"
One of the many sincere efforts by mankind has been to try to understand "Emptiness" sometimes by scientific methods, sometimes by religious doctrines. Recently, we are trying to investigate ...
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If our perceptions are not "real", how can common perceptions be explained?
I am trying to understand emptiness (Buddhism). As I understand it, nothing that can be changed, or broken down into smaller parts is inherently real. If my worldly perceptions of emptiness are not ...
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Is Buddhism a religion or philosophy?
I am planning to live with Buddhist monks. But I am hesitant. I am not sure whether I shall be able to live with them without leaving my current religion.
I think, if Buddhism is a religion, I am ...
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Critique and criticism and counter to that, of the Karma doctrine of Indian religions?
The three main religions generally considered of Easter origin, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism have a common doctrine of the concept of Karma-theory and subsequent infinite rebirth of the soul (jiva),...
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The Origin of Thought
What is the most fundamental form of thought? In Tibetan Buddhism, there is the concept of the Three Vajras, or The Three Doors, which are body, speech, and mind. The human mind can be said to think ...
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Is emptiness in Nagarjunas thought basically the lack of object essences?
Is Nagarjuna by affirming the Sunyata of being, that is nothingness, commenting on the lack of object essences, that this sofa that I'm sitting on has no essence in and of itself; thus it's being is ...
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When enlightenment is tenable?
It seems to me in certain sects of Buddhism enlightenment has become so esoteric that it is an experience so unique that in the entirety of Mankind only one person attained this state and that was the ...
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Concrete language as a manifestation of Being [closed]
Foucault in the preface to The Order of Things wrote how he 'laughed out loud' when he discovered a Chinese Encyclopedia whose categorisation of knowledge was different from his European ...
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Are modern Chinese, Japanese and Korean schools of Buddhism viewed as egocentric presentism?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric_presentism
Are modern Chinese, Japanese and Korean schools of Buddhism viewed as egocentric presentism? Are there any teachings in modern Chinese and ...
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