Epistemology – To Understand Buddhism, First Understand Direct Perception
15. Epistemology (x) The Five Aggregates (iv) Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
According to this Wikipedia article, “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing,” “is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented…
14. Epistemology (ix) The Five Aggregates (iii) – The Observer Effect – The Root Cause of Delusion
We discuss the Observer Effect in this post. The Observer Effect is associated with the Double-Slit Experiment and was discovered in 1801 by British polymath…
13. Epistemology (viii) – The Five Aggregates(ii) – Liberation From Existential Suffering!
In the last few posts, we have discussed Samathavipasyana, the Five Aggregates, existential suffering, and grahyagrahakavikalpa and verified the illusional nature of physical reality. In…
12. Epistemology (vii) The Five Aggregates (i) – Resolving The Mind-Body Problem
Our discussion on epistemology began with the Mind-Body Problem. There is the Mind-Body Problem because “it is not obvious how the concept of the mind and the concept of…
9. Epistemology (vi) The Wordless Flower Sermon
The Flower Sermon (Chinses=拈花微笑) was a unique sermon Buddha gave. It was unique because Buddha was speechless and did not speak until he was sure…
8. Epistemology (v) Direct Perception – The Path To Enlightenment
After discussing “How Do We Know What We Know” and the Kalama Sutta, in which Buddha deems that using word-based knowledge is not helpful in…
7. Epistemology (iv) The Kalama Sutta
In the previous post, we discussed how humans use inferentially connected word-based knowledge to know what they know. However, according to Dr. Fisch, inferentially connected…
6.Epistemology (iii) – How Do We Know What We Know?
As this Wikipedia article states, “Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called the theory of knowledge, it…
