Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' Archived Message
Posted by brooks on March 26, 2021, 7:30 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 started it! 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. Ah Grasshopper...it's because the veil of Maya obscures this truth from you...you mistake the veil for reality. Seriously, one has to have an open mind about this...materialism has its limits and one reaches them pretty quickly when trying to explain much of life. 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. Of course, nothing needs to be derived or explained but philosophy is about trying to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world. What's the best approach? I'm not sure...I was a bit obsessed back in the day so have read everything he wrote. He suggests in the preface to his magnum opus "The World as Will and Idea" that one should first read his PhD dissertation "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason", Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and preferably some Plato. He also said his book should be read twice since the beginning presupposed the end. But obviously those 19th century savants had no internet and way too much time on their hands. ;o) Seriously though, "The World...." is an incredible book if you ever feel inclined. The Haldane-Kemp translation is the best imo, but unfortunately only translates the many Greek quotations into Latin, not English. I guess in their day, anyone who was reading such a book would at least know Latin. 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. He would indeed. A propos, I'll give him the last word: Individuation is merely an appearance, born of Space and Time; the latter being nothing else than the forms under which the external world necessarily manifests itself to me, conditioned as they are by my brain's faculty of perception. Hence also the plurality and difference of individuals is but a phaenomenon, that is, exists only as my mental picture. My true inmost being subsists in every living thing, just as really, as directly as in my own consciousness it is evidenced only to myself. This is the higher knowledge: for that which there is in Sanskrit the standing formula, "tat tvam asi", that art thou. For just as in dreams, all the persons that appear to us are but the masked images of ourselves; so in the dream of our waking life, it is our own being which looks on us from out our neighbours' eyes. To the one type, humanity is a non-ego; to the other, "myself once more"
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- Perhaps there are similar patterns as amongst the modern hikikomori?. - Ken Waldron March 25, 2021, 11:34 pm
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