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Dictionary #7
Tag: Buddhism
Experiencing sounds
Does sound travel from an object to the self which hears it? Is that our experience - or our theory? Does it matter?
Rattle your cage!
I am sitting here. Is that statement true? Your answer will be useless, unless...
Thinking thinks it thinks about things
Is it a "thing" only because we think it is? Is thing-ness a thought? Then what is reality?
Are we doing meditation?
Insight is meditation doing itself! Can this be true?
Thinking thinks there is an I thinking
If it's only a thought that there is an "I", are we nothing but a causal process?
Refuge from the wolf
Buddhism -- give up beliefs! Go beyond beliefs and assumptions, seek what is dependable.
What is a “real” person?
Does a person start at birth and end at death? If Awareness goes beyond death, what is the person then? What is the you that was a baby and has changed in body and mind from that?
Are Awakened Beings Real?
How do you deal with a panoply of religious figures, foreign to your upbringing, sporting various numbers of arms, heads, and skin colours - are they real?
Suffering
...seduced by your own torturer!
Pieces of Five 