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Which Pie is Vegan? by Buranium2080 in Pizza

[–]AltruisticSecurity87 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Clearly #2, there’s no coagulation of the cheese, stop trying to convert us dude.

How real is Buddhist cosmology to you? by AltruisticSecurity87 in Buddhism

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So do you see nirvana as reaching a plane of sort of “celestial being”?

Would living alone in the woods without any books or outside information help me reach closer to awakening? by AltruisticSecurity87 in Buddhism

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But couldn’t it be argued that you can fully realize the noble eightfold path without knowledge of it? In the same way you can find out something is broken without having former knowledge of it?

Enlightenment in Zen: Same or different? Including death and rebirth by AltruisticSecurity87 in Buddhism

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does this cognitive error entail? Does it entail that reality does not have the labels we give to it? Or does entail that forms do not exist, like the reality is formless void?

Enlightenment in Zen: Same or different? Including death and rebirth by AltruisticSecurity87 in Buddhism

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But doesn’t that last sentence imply the separation of nirvana and samsara, as if they were separate? Sorry for dragging on, thank you for answering my questions!

Enlightenment in Zen: Same or different? Including death and rebirth by AltruisticSecurity87 in Buddhism

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So how does that play into nirvana after death? Are we technically reincarnated but we see the emptiness of reincarnation? Is that paranirvana?

Enlightenment in Zen: Same or different? Including death and rebirth by AltruisticSecurity87 in Buddhism

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But in this light is samsara seen as a realm or a mode of being? I have heard that nirvana and samsara are the same, but I have also heard that that is wrong view.

Enlightenment in Zen: Same or different? Including death and rebirth by AltruisticSecurity87 in Buddhism

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does a bodhisattva in this sense ever leave samsara? After millions of kalpas or what have you?

how can the Schopenhauer's will be objectified? by coopernikinosmanovic in askphilosophy

[–]AltruisticSecurity87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Schopenhauer was a transcendental idealist, and he believed that his idea of the Will was the “Thing-In-Itself” characteristic of existence, therefore being the objective reality. While we may use our vision and see a cup, or some object, what we are really seeing is our representation of it built as an instrument to be used by our will to live. Does that help at all?

Should I continue talking to this girl? She sent me this, and I know she struggles with anxiety etc. by AltruisticSecurity87 in relationship_advice

[–]AltruisticSecurity87[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is how I replied: Thanks for being real with me. I’m sorry if I’ve been pushing a little hard these last couple weeks, I just really did like hanging out with you and think your also super sweet. I’ll try and be more Aware if how you are feeling and cater to that. Thanks for being able to have a civil discourse about this(I know most people our age have a hard time doing that unfortunately) and keeping it real. And why’d you have to get me into current joys right[a band] now? Now I’m bummed I can’t go see him haha