Hi Jason Resch Thanks very much for this, but apparently the Buddhists think that mind is not "mental" or "idea-like" as in Idealism, but brick-and-mortar-like, as in western Materialism. Apparently the Buddhists believe, as our materialists do, that mind and matter (ideas and rocks) are One:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-indian-buddhism/ "Perhaps no other classical philosophical tradition, East or West, offers a more complex and counter-intuitive account of mind and mental phenomena than Buddhism. While Buddhists share with other Indian philosophers the view that the domain of the mental encompasses a set of interrelated faculties and processes, they do not associate mental phenomena with the activity of a substantial, independent, and enduring self or agent. Rather, Buddhist theories of mind center on the doctrine of not-self[1] (Pali anatta, Skt.[2] anatma), which postulates that human beings are reducible to the physical and psychological constituents and processes which comprise them. " This boggles my mind. I am purely matter. ????? Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Jason Resch Receiver: Everything List Time: 2013-07-02, 17:21:59 Subject: Re: Materialism and Buddhism >I would say Buddhism is closer to idealism than materialism: > >?ind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made.? >-- Gautama Buddha > >Jason > >On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Roger Clough wrote: > >> Materialism and Buddhism >> >> Materialism, since it contains no subjectivity or self, and >> is atheisti seems to be a form of Buddhism, so that >> is is possible that it is understandable through >> Buddhist psychology. >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
