Thursday 30 August 2012

Just walking



I see trees of green, red roses tooI see them bloom, for me and youAnd I think to myselfWhat a wonderful world

Thursday 9 August 2012

Sol-ipism,....the Unreality.[really]


Buddhism asserts that external reality is an illusion, and sometimes this position is misunderstood as Solipsism. Buddhist doctrine, though, holds that both the mind and external phenomena are both equally transient, and that they arise from each other. The mind cannot exist without external phenomena, nor can external phenomena exist without the mind. This is a process known asPratītyasamutpāda, or "co-dependent origination."
The Buddha stated, "Within this fathom long body is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world".[20] Whilst not rejecting the occurrence of external phenomena, the Buddha focused on the illusion created within the mind of the perceiver by the process of ascribing permanence to impermanent phenomena, satisfaction to unsatisfying experiences, and a sense of reality to things that were effectively insubstantial.
Mahayana Buddhism also challenged as illusion the idea that one can experience an 'objective' reality independent of individual perceiving minds.
According to the Sutra Prasangika view, external objects do exist, just not inherently: "Just as objects of mind do not exist [inherently], mind also does not exist [inherently]".[21] In other words, even though a chair may physically exist, individuals can only experience it through the medium of their own mind, each with their own literal point-of-view. Therefore, an independent purely 'objective' reality could never be experienced.
Some later representatives of one Yogacara subschool (Prajnakaragupta, Ratnakirti) were proponents of extreme illusionism and solipsism (as well as of solipsism of this moment). The best example of such extreme ideas was the treatise of Ratnakirti (11th century"Refutation of the existence of other minds" (Santanantara dusana).
Note: It is important to note that all mentioned Yogacara trends are not purely philosophical but religious–philosophical. All Yogacara discourse takes place within the religious and doctrinal dimension of Buddhism. It is also determined by the fundamental Buddhist problem, that is the living being and its liberation from the bondage of Samsara.

[Wikipedia]

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