AI Overview:
In Buddhism, suffering, or dukkha, is a fundamental concept that is part of the first of the Four Noble Truths:
- Impermanence: Life is constantly changing, and no moment is reliable
- Desire: People crave or grasp for things, but they are never enough and never last
- Pain: Physical pain, such as hunger, lack of sleep, or chronic disease, can cause suffering
- Emotional pain: Frustration, upset, or worry can cause emotional suffering
The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to end the cycle of suffering and repeated death and rebirth, which is called nirvana. To achieve this, Buddhists follow the Eightfold Path, which includes:
- Right views
- Right resolve or aspiration
- Right speech
- Right action or conduct
- Right livelihood
- Right effort
- Right mindfulness
- Right concentration
On Anatta (No-Self)
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And what of it you do understand?
Ah. Oh. Yes.
Yawn
So? what?
It's just funny how many of these Eastern concepts have Western counterparts.
The Middle Way... temperance:courage::wisdom:justice
Impermanence/desire : Plato's "Symposium" (Diotima speech) Everlasting possession of the Good...
Emergence vs Trancendance. I love the whole Emptiness thing and how language captures the groupings of words like sets and logic captures the Venn diagrams.
...The East emphasises "The Many" whereas the West focuses on "The One".
I'll be much better at arguing with Les now.
It's like Judo... using your opponent's momentum to flip them over.
Buddhism focuses on "parts"... Platonism on "The whole".
Deduction vs. Induction...
The soul... the "emptiness" (adytum) at the center of the temple... the "contents" of the "Lost Ark"... the manque of desire itself.
...the void. The Nietzschean "abyss"...
...the philosopher's "stone".
...Anatta (no-self)
the lack which forms the kernel around which every Need must form. The objet petit 'a... or Grand 'A of the "Big Other".
Your need to create Tech and explore Space...
...the source of your dukkha!
Because. If I will not do it, I'll just perish without trace. As well as whole Humankind.
And that damn stupid and boring.
See? Pragmatism.
No, pragmatism lies in Diotima's speech in Plato's symposium. Achieving immortality and eternal possession of the good through "begetting" one's children/ posterity. Much like Gert, you suffer from the eternal curse of the male of the species... lackanookie! ;)
I've GOT three kids... and now my first grandchild. :)
THAT is pragmatism!
You identify too closely with the Objet Gran 'A instead of the objet petit 'a! The Desire(s) of the BIG OTHER.
...Achilles at Troy, not Achilles on Skyros (the neoliberal way - schmittian schloch!).
Your amour fati seeks the eternal fame (and possession of the good) of Achilles. For only the good die young!
A certain specific form of dukkha...
The name Achilles comes from the Ancient Greek words áchos ("distress, pain, sorrow, grief") and laós ("people, soldiers, nation"). The name can be interpreted as "he who has the people distressed" or "he whose people have distress".
You've been Charmed (Charmides) AND Seduced by the rhapsodes of science fiction, the Ion's of our contemporary 'technological' society.
Be careful as to where you seek your wisdom.
AI summary from Plato's Gorgias... In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates uses the metaphor of a leaky jar to illustrate the idea that a soul with unrestrained desires will never be complete. This is because, like a jar with holes, the soul will always require more.
Very Buddhist. Unlike the founder of Europe's daughters... Hypermnestra vs her 49 sisters the Danaedes (Aeschylus 'Suppliants') who were forced to carry water in leaky jars forever...
You should go on a pilgrimmage to Argos and find the shield of Achilles instead of standing around ponds with a jar on your shoulder ala Amphitrite with an amphora.
Where only 4 virtuous frogs spit water at you, once the Lyceaen peasants stop splashing around and muddying the waters.
Ever been to the floating island of Delos? it's where Latona gave birth to Apollo!
As for Apollo's sister Diana/ Artemis, you might try Aristotle's Lagoon for more of her "origin" story.
You suffer from an excess of Rousseau-ian amour d' soi and insufficiency of amour propre. Find the Middle Way as taught to his 'Emile'. That's the masculine way (as opposed to the feminine way taught by Mentor to Fenlon's 'Telemachus').
erratum - reverse those two... @@
(de soi:propre)
I don't think therefore I don't exist ;-)
Great vids, BTW...
//I've GOT three kids... and now my first grandchild. :)
//THAT is pragmatism!
Evolution have you, Oldeo. ;-p
Gracias!
...in all my Emptyness!
))))
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