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Budd'm intro books conflict on free
will
Mushroom Door Poem. 12/12 Milestone
Basic
Buddhist Concepts
Kogen
Mizuno
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=4333012031
p. 46-47
-- asserts free will, grossly and amateurishly and non-philosophically
misportrays the no-free-will position as literal passivity in the manifest
realm.
Most
freewill defenders are such undisciplined, pre-philosophical thinkers, who
demonstrate their incomprehension of the position they are supposedly
against. They thrive on a straw man
argument, upholding their own feeling-based, unrefined, pre-critical position
by refuting a version of determinism that no one has ever held.
What the
Buddha Taught
Walpola
Rahula
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802130313
Chapter 6
(recommended) -- portrays free will as a conventional illusion together with
Self. Rejects the notion of discovering
that you are really Self or the World or God or consciousness or anything else;
rejects any construction "I am actually X".
I hold
that oneself is something and exists in some way, but defining this something
and the nature of this existence requires careful qualification within a
defined conceptual framework. Simple
yes/no answers to ego's existence, or "I am X" constructions, can
never be anywhere near precise enough -- instead, improving accuracy of
thinking is a matter of "first I thought of self this way, but now I think
of it this other way."
A fair
short construction is "oneself is a virtually separate, secondary
controller, not a literally separate, primary controller", but this
construction cannot stand without a supporting explanatory framework that
elaborates each term.
There was
another intro book I read with those two, that was even more literalist,
doctrinaire, and superficial. That was
a milestone for me, to pick up three introductory books and have a strong,
immediate sense of judging which books express the lowest and highest level of
Buddhism -- which books are coming basically from exoteric vs. esoteric
positions.
>Basic
Buddhist Concepts
>Kogen
Mizuno
>http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?
>isbn=4333012031
>
>p.
46-47 -- asserts free will, grossly and amateurishly and
>non-philosophically
misportrays the no-free-will position as literal
>passivity
>in
the manifest realm.<<<<<<<<<<
>
>Mizuno
is very "basic' all right. He is a
semi-decent surface
>buddhist
historian, heavily conditiioned by sectarian dogma, not a
>Buddhist
philosopher, by any means.
>
>dc
Someone
wrote:
>MUSHROOM
IS Secret DoorUntil Now
>Emblems
of Death
>And
the Sun,
>The
Serpent Flame
>BC-AD
is the force behind it all
>A
very intelligent force
>Is
going to rise
>Jesus
is a Myth
>Seal
of Perfection,
>Sanctum
Regnum
>Particle
of Dust
>Wisdom
of the Ages
>Grand
Mystery
>Choose
ye an island
>IHShVH
>Is
not the
>-
Secret Key -
>Remember
today is 12/12
I
remembered today when the computer told me the date.
12/12/1987
was my first breakthrough and intellectual puzzle solution, 16 years ago. I had been reading Watts' The Way of Zen
with full mystic intensity, and it all suddenly made sense by applying the
assumption of no-free-will. "Well
why didn't you say so explicitly! You
are a poor, too-poetic-only writer! You
ought to have more command of word-combinations!" was my immediate
reaction. I have full notes from this
era, which I'd like to scan and upload to show notation and style.
Almost
immediately after, on Jan. 11 1988, in the computer lab at a Mac, I thought of
the block universe in mystic-state terms and cybernetic self-control terms,
deepening the 12/12 discovery and breakthrough. My Dead friend Bill said he was studying Structural Engineering.
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