Pill Pod 207 - Phenomenology via Buddhist Philosophy (exclusive)
Added 2025-05-09 18:51:27 +0000 UTCWe compare Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights in an unfinished work he wrote before his death to the meditations of Nagarjuna 18 centuries prior. Both are attached.
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I'd love to hear a take on Karen Barad, I'm still pretty new to all of this, but I found their Material Discursive idea interesting.
I Hate Max
2025-08-18 11:45:41 +0000 UTCVictor is not wrong. But his way of thinking does lead to suffering (in the Buddhist sense). On the other hand, practicality (things and thingness) is necessary for a materialist revolution. Most of us cannot be Zen masters who can just be, we need food, housing, redistribution, to create conditions to be Zen like.
Khemith
2025-05-26 05:15:32 +0000 UTCThe purpose of Nagarjuna's,and I suspect Ponty's, "ontology" is to "still the heart- mind" (Xin in Chinese) To tame the "omnipotence of the mind" that strongly leans on the visible to express a will to power. In Buddhism attachment to things is the cause of suffering. To seek permanence. This arises out of our senses.
Khemith
2025-05-26 05:09:14 +0000 UTCNot sure that lecturing from on high is the way to make a persuasive, or useful argument. Asking how something "cashes out" or is somehow practicable can obviously be useful to counter abstraction. But will +1 to McGilchrist, their work/analysis on the hemispheric divide seems to only get stronger with the furtherance of neuroscience, and studies on brain drug interactions
Cisko
2025-05-17 01:43:26 +0000 UTCI swear if there wasn't scientific precedence that exercise was good for you Victor wouldn't move his butt. Talking about, I don't see the immediate utility in this. Let the eternal light of truth fill your body and have faith that better alignment with the true nature of reality will reduce your suffering. Wrong-view, that is the misidentification of self, leads people to make bad decisions and is the entire reason the world is in the mess it is in. Victor look at Dr Iain McGilchrist's recent talks on youtube for that knowledge in a form digestible to your predisposition.
Myles Jeffers
2025-05-14 07:25:38 +0000 UTCWould the distinction between object-oriented ontologist (Graham Harman et al) vs subject-oriented ontologist (Zizek et al) imply a commitment to either side of the subject/object divide… They referred in each other as such in conversation…
James Merrigan
2025-05-12 11:08:27 +0000 UTC
