Basically what I am trying to do in this post is to put Jung in the context of Continental Philosophy where he belongs. Freud did not really know the Western Philosophical Tradition as Jung did. Jung was valuable to Freud for two reasons. He was not Jewish and he really knew the tradition well and [...]

Knowledge is a very interesting characteristic because it is the one thing that is actually persistent in experience. However, it is also ephemeral because when you are not thinking of what you know, where does the knowledge reside, seemingly nowhere, at least phenomenologically. Knowledge is often compared with light, and light has many strange properties [...]

There is no getting around it Buddhism takes Karma from Hinduism as a fundamental concept because if it did not Nirvana, the escape from Karma would not be definable. Yet because Buddhism settles on emptiness as the escape mechanism then there is a fundamental conflict between these concepts that took centuries to resolve. Best example [...]

Tathagata means “thus come/gone” and is a way that the Buddha was referred to. It is a way of indicating his nonduality because he is come and gone at the same time without them interfering with each other. It is like the talk in Buddhism of non-arising, non-vanishing. It is more or less the dual [...]

This is a very good question. And as I have said in another answer I have a strange view of Buddhist enlightenment. But leaving this aside what you are really asking is how do I make a non-nihilistic distinction between enlightenment and your own experience of mundane, presumably unenlightened consciousness, and further how do you [...]

It is very interesting that the Zen monk and Taoist Stonehouse in his poetry criticizes monks for begging, and as a hermit prides himself on the fact that he lives from the work of his own hands as a hermit. It is interesting that this criticism comes from someone who actively was exploring the interface [...]

http://www.ralphmag.org/AR/why.html This Koan is a perfect example of pointing to suprarationality. It is pointing to an inexpressible nondual state beyond moving and stillness or breeze and flag. The fact that the sixth patriarch says the mind is moving does not mean it is the “answer”. Notice that the flag is always seen on a flag [...]

Why goes along with the other fundamental questions: who, what, when, where, and how? These fundamental questions orient us in our worldview. They distinguish space and time, person and thing, the means and the reason. These are related in part to Aristotle’s four causes: Formal/who, Material/what, Efficient/how and Final/why in which when, and where are [...]

Automatically generated Summary from Topicmarks For instance there are some models of the universe in which there needs to be a second universe which only shares gravity with our universe, in that case dark matter could be things in the other dual universe. But what is not understood well, is that the multiverse should not [...]

Penrose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rog…) made the comment that we should not call “Dark Energy” energy because it is not conserved. It is pouring into our universe from somewhere else at a rate that is causing the universe to accelerate its expansion. That makes the universe a far from equilibrium system. Negative Entropy can occur in such a system ala Prigogine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ily…). So [...]

Text knode: Buddhism Quora Answers as of 20110211: “Once we understand that the idea of consciousness is bound up with the idea of Being and that Being is the basis of a prior projection, i.e. illusion and delusion then we can start wondering about the relation between consciousness and awareness of Existence which must be [...]

Text knode: Miscellaneous Quora Answers as of 20110211: “One thing I have done is to ask a question and then give my answer to that question, then leaving it to see if there are any other answers to that question. Also we could in the explanation of the questions try to explain the motivations for [...]

Text knode: Philosophy Quora Answers as of 20110211: “For Heidegger Being is ‘No Thing’ which means the same as ontological difference between Being and the ontic beings, because Being itself is no specific thing, but a generalization of all things that stands independently from the things. This is a long story, but to try to [...]

Text knode: Physics Quora Answers as of 20110211: “We happen to be trapped in the third dimension and we experience time and so if we think of time linearly we can interpret it as the fourth dimension. In F theory which is twelve dimensional and is one dimension higher than M theory, there are two [...]

I tried it and it does not seem very interesting, as it just asks a series of questions that you can respond to to refine your thoughts on something. Checklists are good. (See Checklist Manifesto: http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-…). But following checklists should not be mistaken for thinking. So I would not say it is useless, but probably nearly [...]

It is a little known fact that there are meta-levels to the concept of Being that is if we apply Russell’s type theory to the kinds of Being discovered in Continental Philosophy as I have done in order to answer the question what is emergence in my first dissertation. Now what is interesting about the [...]

I thought I would clarify the nature of paradox in relation to superrationality. Paradox is mixture, it is where there is mixture between contradictory opposites. However, superrationality is when you have two things at the same time but they do not mix. Generally speaking paradox is like entanglement in Quantum Mechanics and suprarationality is like [...]

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It is a kind of rule that if you are really not interested in something and you try to avoid it in your intellectual search, that eventually you will have to understand that thing that you were avoiding. So I say that do not try to become interested in things that have no interest, but [...]

Heidegger famously criticized the idea of things being “interesting” as being nihilistic, because what is interesting today is boring tomorrow, what is interesting does not hold its value. He said that what is better is “thought-provoking” and then says that what is most thought-provoking” is that we are not yet thinking. But I have created [...]