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- Sep 2023
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According to general Buddhist analysis, the individual that may be assumed to exist as a singular, enduring, and controlling self is mere appearance devoid of causal efficacy, and thus epiphenomenal [68]. In the case of a Bodhisattva, this understanding is carried forward so as to encompass a critique of the apparent foundations of cognition: object, agent, and action.
- for: emptiness, shunyata, non-existence of self, no-self, illusory self, deconstructing self
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- this short description of the reasoning behind deconstructing the self is quite fresh and insightful, especially relating it to cognition.
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However, knowing the science community has long underestimated climate impacts, it is my judgement that the climate system has crossed a critical threshold. I believe its destabilisation will now trigger cascading and chaotic changes and disruption to human social and economic systems – and do so globally.
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- Knowing the science community has long underestimated climate impacts,
- it is my judgement that the climate system has crossed a critical threshold.
- I believe its destabilisation will now trigger
- cascading and
- chaotic changes and
- disruption to human social and
- economic systems
- and do so globally.
- author: Paul Gilding
- source: https://www.paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/the-great-disruption-has-begun
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date: Sept. 3, 2023
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- the concept of emptiness (shunyata), found throughout eastern philosophy is an organizing principle that can be used to frame the polycrisis, especially the many system wide entanglements.
- Emptiness's two main characteristics:
- interdependency and
- change
- are analogous to:
- complexity / ecology and
- evolution
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