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  1. Jun 2025
    1. when there’s no truth or value, it makes sense to opt for what is most gratifying in the moment or of greatest service to the self (or ego).

      for - adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness

      adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness - This is the warning that Buddhist teachers have warned about to their students, who have an incomplete "understanding" of emptiness - If nothing is solid or real, and there is no right or wrong, then the student can mistakenly fall into nilhism and do harm - If the concept of harm is construed as part of dualism but dualism is the illusion to be penetrated, then again there is the danger of falling into post-truth where nothing matters and anarchy reins. - In Buddhist philosophy, the concept of "appearance-emptiness" shows that there is still some reality, just not what we originally thought