Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on March 26, 2021, 6:44 pm, in reply to "Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' "
I thought this was a message board not a philosophy seminar. You obviously know more about Schopenhauer than I do so perhaps I shouldn't have stepped my toe into that particular river. I guess I have little patience with metaphysical speculation, whether of western or eastern origin, that divides things up into an 'illusory' world of 'appearances' and the 'real' world somehow underlying it. I thought Kant believed that this underlying noumenal world was inaccessible to our reason. If Schopenhauer believes using our intuition is a way of accessing this world, he sounds remarkably like Bergson in this respect. Our compassion for others is a quality of our relationships. It doesn't need to derive from or be explained by any underlying world or force. We cannot help but be bound up in this world, this world of contingency. We are embodied creatures, temporally and spatially defined, privileged to be able to experience the world, however inadequately. I read Schopenhauer's Aphorisms back in the day. Perhaps I should read more. What's the best approach? I guess Schopenhauer would appreciate one of my favourite quotes: Those who see all beings in themselves and themselves in all beings know no fear. Isa Upanashad.
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