Whatever phenomena arise from a cause:
Their cause
& their cessation.
Such is the teaching of the Tathagata,
the Great Contemplative.
- Mv I.23.5
My thesis is that non-reductionism is a confusion; and once you realize
that an idea is a confusion, it becomes a tad difficult to envision what the
universe would look like if the confusion were true.
- Excluding the Supernatural, Eliezer Yudkowsky
I should be more grateful. I dug myself into a hole, and coming out would have been excruciatingly painful, had it not been the teacher, the teaching & his disciples.
Once, The teacher exhaustively enumerated all viewpoints that were not his teaching (DN 1).... (read 452 more words →)