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rmraju replied to the topic Re: Buddhism naturalized! in the forum.
Hi Pradip,
My thoughts:
Any society/country may start considering and accepting Buddhism as moral-mental hygiene without hocus-focus of karma, rebirth etc. Now core of Buddhism is based on Void and Śūnyatā which is based on experience of nirvana. Any religion based only on concepts will not survive. I think after experience of Nirvana they will start believing rebirth, karma etc as valid.
Cheers,
Rajendra
PS: Non-dual experience of Brahman (deep-mystical) appears to be different from non-dual experience of Void or Śūnyatā (nature-mystical). Here are some definitions/explanations (& some adaptation) of these two experiences that I came across:
Two types of mystical experience result from concentrative techniques (which focus attention) and receptive techniques (which de-structure our normal conceptual frameworks that structure sensory stimuli).
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Nature-mystical experiences involve a subject-object differentiation present in ordinary sense experiences of thought.
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It is possible that sensory nature-mystical experience is a pure receptive mindfulness that is totally de-conceptualizes sensory stimuli unmediated by any sense of independent entities.
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Any reality experience nature-mystically is not the mystical of depth-mystical experience. In the case of nature-mystical experiences, concepts are absent only in the extreme sensory instance.
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In nature-mystical; states, the enlightened still use concepts - only the idea of self-existent, permanent objects is removed.
Ref: EXPERIENCE AND CONCEPTUALIZATION IN MYSTICAL KNOWLEDGE
By Richard H. Jones
Zygon - Volume 18, Issue 2, pages 139–165, June 1983
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My thoughts:
Any society/country may start considering and accepting Buddhism as moral-mental hygiene without hocus-focus of karma, rebirth etc. Now core of Buddhism is based on Void and Śūnyatā which is based on experience of nirvana. Any religion based only on concepts will not survive. I think after experience of Nirvana they will start believing rebirth, karma etc as valid.
Cheers,
Rajendra
PS: Non-dual experience of Brahman (deep-mystical) appears to be different from non-dual experience of Void or Śūnyatā (nature-mystical). Here are some definitions/explanations (& some adaptation) of these two experiences that I came across:
Two types of mystical experience result from concentrative techniques (which focus attention) and receptive techniques (which de-structure our normal conceptual frameworks that structure sensory stimuli).
..
Nature-mystical experiences involve a subject-object differentiation present in ordinary sense experiences of thought.
..
It is possible that sensory nature-mystical experience is a pure receptive mindfulness that is totally de-conceptualizes sensory stimuli unmediated by any sense of independent entities.
..
Any reality experience nature-mystically is not the mystical of depth-mystical experience. In the case of nature-mystical experiences, concepts are absent only in the extreme sensory instance.
..
In nature-mystical; states, the enlightened still use concepts - only the idea of self-existent, permanent objects is removed.
Ref: EXPERIENCE AND CONCEPTUALIZATION IN MYSTICAL KNOWLEDGE
By Richard H. Jones
Zygon - Volume 18, Issue 2, pages 139–165, June 1983
Read More...
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