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21/ Vacuous paradox tends towards Monist Eternalism, it’s a way of smoothing over difficult differences
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11/ Direct experience
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12/ Phrases like ‘direct experience’, ‘ultimate reality’, ‘pure Enlightenment’ are overused and meaningless, devoid of substance. The person using them may mean something…but without contextual elaboration it’s unclear what particular experience they’re referring to.
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13/ Here’s @Meaningness on Enlightenment and Reality
vividness.live/2012/09/13/epi…
vividness.live/2015/11/25/wha…
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14/ Pure perception
this one is especially for @RoryMullins
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15/ Form is emptiness and emptiness is form
is only 50% vacuous
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16/ Form is emptiness and emptiness is form is all there is to know. Everything else is superfluous detail.
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17/ Superfluous detail facilitates useful experience to the extent that principle is congruent with function and both are clearly articulated.
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18/ Superfluous detail hinders useful experience to the extent that it employs rules and rote to obfuscate intelligent application.
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19/ What is the sound…
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20/ Buddhism’s
#VacuousBuddhistPlatitudes are often paradoxes. Noticing the difference between a meaningless paradox and an insightful one is non-intuitive.
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22/ How do you know the difference between insightful paradox and vacuous drivel? If something sounds like it might be bs, at least consider the possibility that it is.
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23/ Metaphysical word salad is not insightful paradox
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24/ Being able to think clearly is as important as being able to think less
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