Michael W Taft - Deconstructing Yourself Podcast - Discussion
Michael W Taft - Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
elizabeth, modificat fa 7 anys at 22/05/17 18:33
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Michael W Taft - Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
Apunts: 76 Data d'incorporació: 10/05/14 Publicacions recentsHal, modificat fa 6 anys at 15/03/18 20:49
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RE: Michael W Taft - Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
Apunts: 5 Data d'incorporació: 22/09/17 Publicacions recents
I listened to the one with Daniel Ingram and Michal Taft when it was first posted and found it fascinating, as they both always are. However, I could not follow the logic of their agreeing that it doesn't really matter whether supernatural/ESP phenomena are actually true or not, and that the only things that mattered were subjective, etc. It seems pretty straightforward that objective reality matters. (I like the Philip K. Dick quote, "Reality is that which, when you stop believeing in it, it doesn't go away.")
Plus, if these things (magick, etc.) are true, and your goal is to reduce the suffering of all sentient beings, then you could spread the gospel of the Dharma more effectively if you could show it to be true. You would probably win a Nobel prize while you were at it.
Plus, if these things (magick, etc.) are true, and your goal is to reduce the suffering of all sentient beings, then you could spread the gospel of the Dharma more effectively if you could show it to be true. You would probably win a Nobel prize while you were at it.
Chris M, modificat fa 6 anys at 15/03/18 17:45
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RE: Michael W Taft - Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
Apunts: 5248 Data d'incorporació: 26/01/13 Publicacions recentsIt seems pretty straightforward that objective reality matters.
Can you explain how it is that you actually have contact with "objective reality?" Is there such a thing?
I'm being quite serious and playing devil's advocate to make you think about this more deeply. If you're a practitioner of buddhist meditation one of the major objectives of the practice is to investigate the very deepest nature of your experience. In pursuing this investigation you learn that all your experience is mediated by mind. We have no real contact with phenomena not mediated by mind. That is the essence of subjectivity. That is what Ingram and Taft are referring to in their converstation. We may choose to believe in magical pehnomena or choose not to believe in them, but in either case we're making a judgment based on subjective "evidence" and a priori belief - because that's all we have to go on.
Kuru, modificat fa 6 anys at 16/03/18 15:11
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RE: Michael W Taft - Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
Apunts: 62 Data d'incorporació: 02/11/17 Publicacions recentsHal:
I listened to the one with Daniel Ingram and Michal Taft when it was first posted and found it fascinating, as they both always are. However, I could not follow the logic of their agreeing that it doesn't really matter whether supernatural/ESP phenomena are actually true or not, and that the only things that mattered were subjective, etc. It seems pretty straightforward that objective reality matters. (I like the Philip K. Dick quote, "Reality is that which, when you stop believeing in it, it doesn't go away.")
Plus, if these things (magick, etc.) are true, and your goal is to reduce the suffering of all sentient beings, then you could spread the gospel of the Dharma more effectively if you could show it to be true. You would probably win a Nobel prize while you were at it.
Plus, if these things (magick, etc.) are true, and your goal is to reduce the suffering of all sentient beings, then you could spread the gospel of the Dharma more effectively if you could show it to be true. You would probably win a Nobel prize while you were at it.