Before meditation I would have said philosophical materialist.
But not any more, a bit difficult to explain but here it goes...
What is the lynchpin to your world view ?
- Pure logic is ultimately circular and doesn't show you anything.
- So we tend to posit something like the cogito ("I think therefore I am") as a linchpin to logic based on some sort of ultimate fact of our experience.
A lack of lynchpins to be found?
- However when one's first person subjective experience is examined, we cannot find any evidence of a "I", a "thought", or "time" or "space" truly existing on independently without any reference to one and other.
- All lynchpins are merely conceptual designations, rather than actually real.
- So its all circular once again.
The end of suffering
This mean every aspect of experience has equal truth value in an ultimate sense, functionally all the rules to the universe (whatever they may be) still apply but only relative to each other.
Further since there is no ultimate truth outside of conventional truth. Conventional truth is the ultimate truth.
This allows for a greater diversity of philosophies, to be adopted depending on the situation.
So even this sort of philosophy is just a tool, and nothing ultimate. In Buddhism this sort of philosophy or "view" is a tool used to bring about the end of suffering.
If you recognize in real time that there is nothing inherently true to cling to in experience, then that would be the end of clinging.
