Category: philosophical counseling
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From Where Does The Content Lent To The Body, The Mind, And The Senses Come?
Start with the body, the mind, and the senses, and consider the deeply enigmatic question, “From where does each get its content?” When you go directly to the body, you discover that it’s only a sensation. To speak of “sensation,” however, is already to apply rupa as in namarupa. That is, the “raw feel” of…
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Was Berkeley A Proto-nondualist?
One can discover in Bishop George Berkeley–and it’s the writings of Greg Goode that pointed me in this direction–the basic elements of a nondual metaphysics. Obviously, he was a theist, but his ontology can arguably lend itself to a proto-nondualist interpretation. These basic elements are: ideas, finite minds, and God’s Infinite Mind. Below, I’ll add…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 