Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:18:35 AM No.24467374
>tfw you acknowledge dualism is retarded but it’s too romantic to abandon and you live as an absurd contradiction and you’re fine with it
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:19:31 AM No.24467376
>>24467374 (OP)
I'm a dualist out of personal hatred for monism
I'm a dualist out of personal hatred for monism
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:25:13 AM No.24467381
>>24467374 (OP)
I don't know about the romantic part but exposure to paradoxes is a fast, effective, fun, and potentially dangerous way to learn. Modern methods have removed the really good ones and made for tame learning methods. Reject modernity frog.
I don't know about the romantic part but exposure to paradoxes is a fast, effective, fun, and potentially dangerous way to learn. Modern methods have removed the really good ones and made for tame learning methods. Reject modernity frog.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:28:15 AM No.24467385
>>24467381
I will take soul-machine hybrid over pattern matching clump of cells.
I will take soul-machine hybrid over pattern matching clump of cells.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:42:43 AM No.24467408
>>24467385
>a Zen master from the rigorous Soto school trained in dialectic.
>the artform wasn't popular at the time. This means nothing to a Zen Master.
>Taisen Desimaru left his home country and traveled the world and participated in dialectic with any who were interested.
>one day he was asked about the method.
>he responded that the tradition is always direct transmission.
>he was asked how that works.
>Taisen responded: "True religion is neither esoteric nor mystical, it is not a mental gymnastics exercise. True religion is the highest way. The absolute way is zazen."
I guess modernity isn't all bad if you do it right.
>a Zen master from the rigorous Soto school trained in dialectic.
>the artform wasn't popular at the time. This means nothing to a Zen Master.
>Taisen Desimaru left his home country and traveled the world and participated in dialectic with any who were interested.
>one day he was asked about the method.
>he responded that the tradition is always direct transmission.
>he was asked how that works.
>Taisen responded: "True religion is neither esoteric nor mystical, it is not a mental gymnastics exercise. True religion is the highest way. The absolute way is zazen."
I guess modernity isn't all bad if you do it right.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:46:48 AM No.24467417
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:51:20 AM No.24467424
Descartes was right about dualism.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 5:23:46 AM No.24467527
>>24467417
>the smile of the first transmission is beyond words or letters
>for the wise awakening comes suddenly
>upon hearing the diamond sutra I felt clear and awake
>one with a false understanding seeking perfect enlightenment will never find it
>once a monk spoke to Hui-neng before an audience. The monk later recalled: he knew I understood what was truly important but he didn't want the others to know. He told them he didn't get it either.
>every single thing holds all things
>the smile of the first transmission is beyond words or letters
>for the wise awakening comes suddenly
>upon hearing the diamond sutra I felt clear and awake
>one with a false understanding seeking perfect enlightenment will never find it
>once a monk spoke to Hui-neng before an audience. The monk later recalled: he knew I understood what was truly important but he didn't want the others to know. He told them he didn't get it either.
>every single thing holds all things