Epistemology – To Understand Buddhism, First Understand Epistemology
11. Epistemology (viii) – Liberation From Existential Suffering!
In this post, we explore how a well-known Avalokiteśvara liberates himself from his existential suffering by realizing the Emptiness of the Five Aggregates. First, let’s…
10. Epistemology (vii) The Five Aggregates – 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…
5. Epistemology (ii) – A Mind-Body Problem?
We discuss epistemology before discussing Buddhism because understanding Buddha’s unique epistemology is so critically important that one cannot hope to understand Buddhism without first understanding…
