tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post7366812790196734494..comments2024-02-24T00:41:37.836-08:00Comments on The Buddha Diaries: Cholera: London, 1854Peter Clothierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-24179596871377704042008-12-10T18:16:00.000-08:002008-12-10T18:16:00.000-08:00Do you know that when I was a kid, my house (in a ...Do you know that when I was a kid, my house (in a small town in Malaysia) also did not have flush toilet? It was in late 70s and 80s that the traditional toilets were converted to the modern ones.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, cholera cases are down already, but now we have more cancer, more AIDS... <I>Dhukkha</I> will never go away.khengsionghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08388168568808671784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-73917488643095683362008-12-09T16:23:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:23:00.000-08:00Yes, I'm scaring off your readers and boring you....Yes, I'm scaring off your readers and boring you. "Cheers".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-50169632912473315452008-12-09T11:28:00.000-08:002008-12-09T11:28:00.000-08:00Am I being obtuse, Carly? I see only a very tange...Am I being obtuse, Carly? I see only a very tangential reference to cholera or to London, 1854 in your comment. It's a trait I've been seeing increasingly in your responses, which brings me back to something I believe I suggested quite a while ago: that you start your own blog. I think we often come close in our ways of perceiving, thinking and acting in the world, but your mind works far better than mine in the fields of logic and philosophical discussion. I'm a bit of a dunce, actually, when it comes to abstract thought; I think of myself as a one who reflects in quite concrete terms on the events of my life and who uses the medium of words as a way to come to an understanding of their meaning. It's all very personal for me, very intimate, very immediate, very sense-ational. I tend to shy away from the more abstract analysis that seems to attract your mind--at least as it's reflected in what and how you write. I value your readership of The Buddha Diaries and your desire to engage, but... doesn't some of your carefully-argued thought have a place of its own? I'd love to be able to check in on a Carly blog...Peter Clothierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-91155755852505591532008-12-09T11:08:00.000-08:002008-12-09T11:08:00.000-08:00Amit Goswami, describes, in layman's terms, a pers...Amit Goswami, describes, in layman's terms, a persuasive idea of consciousness and what the mystic saw. And how that, by Eastern thinking, undermines Western scientific materialism as to the make-up the world. For me, there are great truths in it, until he comes to the conclusion, that the universe didn't exist until we came to consciousness of it as sentient beings as possibilities which manifested it into an actuality. Description of Buddhist enlightenment and reality? What do you think of this explanation? <BR/><BR/>Then, he goes on to say, "if we just see the diversity, see the God in everything, but don't see the God which is beyond every particular thing, then we are not realizing our potential. We are not realizing our Self."<BR/><BR/>http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/goswam1.htm<BR/><BR/>I like the first part of this interview, because it supports, via quantum theory and Aspects findings, that an invisible realm, a transcendent dimension, exists permeated with the material. I question, however, that man is the center of all reality, as a system soley of possibilities, man as legend in his own mind, center of his own universe truly exercising free will. <BR/><BR/>However important that universe would be, I would say, instead, that man perceives within limitations, the corporeal and invisible only as a non-essential part of what would exist even if he dissapeared. That seems more in line with universal laws of humility and modesty in nature and the best position from which to exercise free will in action or non-action. It also seems a more tangible sense of Self.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-44643458578507979112008-12-09T11:07:00.000-08:002008-12-09T11:07:00.000-08:00re: "holding" opposing ideasdi·a·lec·tic1: logic 2...re: "holding" opposing ideas<BR/>di·a·lec·tic<BR/>1: logic 2 a: discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual investigation; the Socratic techniques of exposing false beliefs and eliciting truth b: the Platonic investigation of the eternal ideas 3: the logic of fallacy 4 a: the Hegelian process of change in which a concept or its realization passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its opposite 5a: any systematic reasoning, exposition, or argument that juxtaposes opposed or contradictory ideas and usually seeks to resolve their conflict 6: the dialectical tension or opposition between two interacting forces or elementsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com