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Category Archives: Epistemology
COSMOLOGIES, AND SEMANTICS.
Neither being (sat) nor non-being was as yet. What was concealed? And where? And in whose protection?…Who really knows? Who can declare it? Whence was it born, and whence came this creation? The devas (gods) were born later than this … Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient Religions, Atheism, Big Bang, Cosmogony, Cosmology, Critical Thinking, Cultural Attitudes, Epistemology, Inspiration, Knowing Self, Knowledge, Languaage, Lawrence Krauss, Metaphysics, Michael Lynch, Myth, Philosophy, Physics, Semantics, Space exploration, Theology, Uncategorized, Wisdom
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Tagged Big Bang, Cosmogony, Cosmology, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Lynch, Philosophy, Rig Veda, Semantics, Tower Of Babel
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TRADITION, EDUCATION, NEW TRENDS IN SCIENCE, AND FINDING A REAL SENSEI
Throught the years I had being a sort of an Iconoclastic, or at least believed myself to be one, there’s this idea that as we grow older we become more conservative in our outlook, and I am not talking … Continue reading →
Posted in Buddhist Monk, Consciousness, Critical Thinking, Cultural Attitudes, Democracy, Education, Epistemology, Future, Ignorance, Illusions, Inspiration, Knowledge, Learning, Mastery, Memories, Meritocracy, Science and Belief, Shugyo, Snsei, Teaching, Tradition, Training, Transformation, Uncategorized, Values, Wisdom, Zen
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Tagged Hard Training, Iconoclasm, iconoclasts, Knowledge, Moore's Law, Multiverses, New Paradigms, Scholarly method, Sensei, Shugyo, Solipsism, Tradition, Wisdom, Zen Priest
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DELEUZE, WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND THE ENDLESS REVERSING OF THE SOCK, THE CONCEPT, A SISYPHEAN TASK, ONENESS OF BEING, ZEN AND THE EVER CHATTING MIND
It is too clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, He could have cooked his rice much sooner. Joshu A SISYPHEAN TASK … Continue reading →
Posted in Buddhism, Buddhist Monk, Conceptualism, Cosmology, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, Deleuze, Dogen Zenji, Epistemology, Ibn Arabi, Language, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Ontology, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Semantics, Spirituality, Subjective, Transcendental Empiricism, Uncategorized, Univocity, Wahdat al Wujud, Western Civilization, Western Philosophy, Wisdom, Writing, Yoga Sutras, Zen
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Tagged Albert Camus, Concepts, Dogen Zenji, Gilles Deleuze, Ibn Arabi, Joshu, Patanjali, Philosophy, Practice, Sisyphus, The swordsman and the cat, Unity of Existence, Zazen, Zen Buddhism
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