Hi DMB, your mail was simply two statements, so not sure what your
purpose was ... or whether it related to anyone else's point(s) ?
They're true enough.
The first one - yes, but even the Buddha, handling a gold "object" of
value (beyond its gold content) would take care not to destroy that
value, when heating , rubbing, cutting, etc. ("We murder to dissect" -
with Aristotle's analytic knife, said Wordsworth, )
The second one - yes, but the point is that logical consistency is
about relations involving the "objects" chosen. Choose the wrong
objects - or even objects at all - and direct experienced reality may
not look so logical expressed in those objective terms. Logical
consistency has its limitations.
Ian
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:18 AM, david buchanan <dmbucha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> If my sources are right, the Buddha said:
> "Just as the wise accept gold after testing it by heating, cutting and
> rubbing it, so are my words to be accepted after examining them, but not out
> of respect for me."
> And, similarly, the Dali Lama said:
> "A general stance of Buddhism is that it is inappropriate to hold a view that
> is logically inconsistent. This is taboo. But even more taboo than holding a
> view that is logically inconsistent is holding a view that goes against
> direct experience."
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