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The Nonsense End of the Heart Sutra?

Some commentators and translators of the Heart Sutra, leave the mantra at the end untranslated. So sometimes we find:

“The mantra of the perfection of wisdom is stated thus: gate gate pāragate pārasamgate bodhi svāhā.”

and sometimes we … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on October 21, 2020January 9, 2021Tags Buddhism, Religion, Translation

Gettier Cases and Moral Knowledge

              I’ve said that probabilistic arguments for God don’t do much to convince a committed atheist.  But the Argument from Moral Knowledge can be reformulated so that it is not merely probabilistic.  In other words, the standard atheist picture (humans … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 4, 2020August 12, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Buddhism, Philosophy

Examples of Backwards Causation

We tend to believe that all causation is forwards; a cause must temporally precede its effect. But there are some delightful examples of at least possible backwards causation. Even if all they do is demonstrate the ridiculousness of backwards causation, … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020Tags Buddhism, Causation, Christianity, Philosophy

The Difficulty of Giving

In Theravada Buddhism, the Bodhisattva (the Buddha pre-enlightenment) spent 540 lives cultivating the ten perfections so that he could at last be enlightened as Siddhartha.  Generosity is the first of the perfections, but the last to be mastered.  The Bodhisattva … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 8, 2020April 8, 2020Tags Buddhism, Philosophy

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