I would like to say that nonduality supports and is a resource for morality. Immoral behavior always sets up a duality perpetuator/victim for example. Therefore, the scandals in the Zen community, like all other communities in pursuit of nonduality merely shows us who is and who is not a genuine teacher in terms of the [...]

Technically speaking DzogChen does not believe that there is any difference between meditation and non-meditation, in this way it is like Zen. It does not believe that there is any difference between the two truths, i.e. mundane reality and emptiness as ultimate reality of existence. DzogChen says that there is a deeper ground, called the [...]

There has been a basic misunderstanding of the relation of theory to practice in Buddhism, due to how it was introduced into the USA from the 1960s on, and due to cultural proclivities that lured us toward it. If we look back on the history of Buddhism we can see that theory and practice always [...]

Godel Escher and Bach (GEB) are perfect names for what Hofstadter wants to say, that has not changed, and is not likely to change any time soon, because he picked the three people in math/logic, art, and music that exemplified the same point, and the whole point of the book is to show that in [...]

I up voted those who said reading. I have always been addicted to reading. But there is no 12 step program for readers. It is considered laudable, and and there is no help for those for whom it has gotten out of hand. What goes with that is the addiction to buying books. And what [...]

http://morrowdim.tripod.com/maps.html Map of Middle Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth This map probably modeled on the West coast of Britain was where the Lord of the Rings saga took place. That Saga took place in a world already invented in the Silmarillion. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion). Tolkein was however not just an explorer of space but also time, as he was experimenting [...]

Harold Bloom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom Especially for . . . A Map of Misreading. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_tradition The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence http://bit.ly/wN0kkF

Skepticism is the old strawman and Nihilism is the new strawman. The strawman is the thing that everyone attacks but does not really take seriously. It used to be almost every philosophy book would start out by attacking skepticism. But then David Hume came along and Kant took him seriously and Philosophy got a lot [...]

I went to a world renowned university that no one knows about here in the USA. It is called University of London. But because it is broken up into a number of Colleges all over London, no one quite notices that it is there. And certainly few in the US know it exists, because somehow [...]

Emergent Design Explorations in Systems Phenomenology in relation to Ontology, Hermeneutics and the Meta-dialectics of Design http://about.me/emergentdesign Schemitization is the projection of an a priori ordering before experience which is a posteriori. Kant thought that we projected Space and Time and the Categories prior to all experience and that is why we thought causality for [...]

I to am amazed at what it takes to produce the synthesis that on the surface allows us some affordance, like asking and answering questions on Quora, and that it is made up of a lot of ascii nonsense, that makes making sense possible. But there is indeed a post-programming age but it is going [...]

The number of people who died in the last century and the first part of this century by Wars that were the aftermath of Colonialism and due to Ideological struggle between Fascism, Communism, and Capitalism, and the  number which will probably die in this century still to come. All of human history is fought with [...]

As a long winded writer with poor structure to my answers I thought this was the perfect question for me to answer. Now I don’t claim to speak for other long winded Ph.D.s or those others who have poorly structured answers, or both like me. First of all I don’t just write long winded poorly [...]

Let us consider what Life and Death might be. Life is autopoietic. It is the existential viability of the organism in its environment. As such it is the combination of two Dissipative Ordering Special Systems in symbiosis. This is reflected all over our biology, but especially in the symbiosis between body and mind. Our Body [...]

In general it is true that enlightenment is a class of “experience” that is the same for all Buddhists. But this class of experience is very wide, and within it many differences that are significant. The way I usually express this is to point out how the Buddha just kept coming out with more and [...]

You must be reading my mind. I have written a few unpublished books on this very topic. It is a very interesting question which I am looking forward to see if anyone else might have to say about this question. http://bit.ly/xZwOyi

This is a dumb question. I think we need to start pointing out when questions are not so swift so the questioners will think twice about posting them. This is like perhaps the opposite question, why did Pol Pot kill people who wore glasses, was there a deeper reason underlying that decision, than just stupidity. [...]

There are problem with methods. Methods according to Feyerabend means Meta-hodos — The Way After . . . In other words Method is a way for others to follow after the one who discovers a something. How the discovery happens cannot be contained in any method, especially if the discovery in some way an Emergent [...]

Wisdom is an emergent step above Knowledge. The series may be something like . . . Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, Insight, Realization Now the interesting thing about knowledge is its permanence. Knowledge is the most permanent thing in our experience. Try forgetting something you know. We also know what we have told others, and what [...]

  About DzogChan: Basically the Tibetans threw the Chinese monks out, there was a debate which the Chinese monks were challenged in a philosophical debate and all the Tibetans agree that they lost the debate. Well Zen and  other forms of Chinese Buddhism are not really about debate, but we don’t know what school the Chinese [...]