I want to thank Alex for his insightful comments and questions regarding my
contribution concerning the nature of the self, with regards to Nagarjuna’s
reductionism. I even like Alex's pun on my name, since there is something
unbinding and liberating about Nagarjuna’s ruthless undermining of
Dear Steve,
What you have written is so supreme and beautiful!
Might I suggest a Deed-Poll application to
Un-Bind-a-man?
After reading your comments, I had to take time out and simply sit in
"Silence", and let my mind be filled with the 'energy' with which your
words had both filled it and
Unless I am misunderstanding Nagarjuna, he uses a form of reductionism to show
how all metaphysical positions are untenable. To illustrate this point in
further detail, I will provide the rest of my section on his thinking from my
manuscript on silence:
Following the implications of the middle
It is good to note that Reductionism is not appropriate,
not in this particular context, maybe not in any context.
Most of the oriental philosophers were not aware of any
reductionist approach, since their teachers were purely
concerned with integrated and holistic approaches to
understanding and
