The Buddha’s use of ‘logic’ pre-dated the ancient Greeks.
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The Buddha’s use of ‘logic’ pre-dated the ancient Greeks.
The Buddha explains that the world is experienced through the six senses, which in the Buddhist teachings includes the ‘mind’ as a sense-organ. Whether or not an ‘idealist’ position exists within later Buddhism is a matter of academic dispute.
Just prior to the self-immolation (whilst the ‘hero’ is still conscious and pain-free) they are to shout ‘Free Tibet’, ‘Dalai Lama Return to Tibet’, ‘Free Political Prisoners’, and so on.
Author’s Note: Whereas the 14th Dalai Lama once pontificated that Communist China would collapse due to what he mistakenly considered to be its ‘internal contradictions’,
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Enlightenment is not the acceptance of, or practical experience of rebirth. Enlightenment is not the acceptance of, or practical experience of a ‘soul’ theory. In other words, a fully enlightened and rational mind, is a mind ‘emptied’ of all delusion and irrationality.