tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post2676818140320439246..comments2024-03-27T14:35:59.406-07:00Comments on The Outsider: Evolution as a Fundamental Characteristic of LifePaññobhāsahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148206217028034038noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-60865973011219478972020-04-29T11:28:29.153-07:002020-04-29T11:28:29.153-07:00Thanks for a good, concise answer. It seems then ...Thanks for a good, concise answer. It seems then that from a Buddhist standpoint, death is really a subset of change, and nibbana. is changelessness, so the absence of change is not death! As you say, it's off the charts. Very scary, but also exciting<br />(an understatement).<br />Regards,<br />Bob B.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-8718222748265439142020-04-29T10:29:57.005-07:002020-04-29T10:29:57.005-07:00Hey, that's a good question.
For starters I&...Hey, that's a good question. <br /><br />For starters I'd say Nibbana is completely off the scale, and transcends the whole duality of life/death, change/stasis, same/different, etc. etc. It's totally beyond such mundane concepts.<br /><br />But in a way Nibbana is a kind of death, the relinquishment of the ego and self identity and end of rebirth, which is why deep down so many people are terrified by it.<br /><br />But a perfect Absolute may be seen (necessarily inadequately) as infinite emptiness (more Buddhist) or as infinite being or eternal life (more theistic). Any way of looking at it is inadequate. At any rate it's infinitely superior to mere mundane life or death.Paññobhāsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14148206217028034038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-80558806329969720852020-04-29T09:54:24.625-07:002020-04-29T09:54:24.625-07:00Hello Bhante,
If life is change and changelessness...Hello Bhante,<br />If life is change and changelessness is death, then what does this imply about nirvana-nibbana?<br />Regards,<br />Bob Binkins <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-78666720345720858372020-04-24T12:58:28.487-07:002020-04-24T12:58:28.487-07:00Social Darwinism was mainstream up until Boasian a...Social Darwinism was mainstream up until Boasian anthropology (predominantly Marxist and Hebrew in origin) demonized it and orchestrated its fall from scientific (or rather academic and political) grace. Paññobhāsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14148206217028034038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-73626553150034054002020-04-24T12:37:01.899-07:002020-04-24T12:37:01.899-07:00Sounds like you're just peddling Social Darwin...Sounds like you're just peddling Social Darwinism, a theory that has been totally debunked by science...🙄<br /><br />Kidding, but some version of that is always what you hear from the mouthpieces on the left if you go anywhere near Social Darwinism. Curiously enough I never see them say how it's been debunked, and by "science" they probably mean the social sciences aka global homo university. Then neoconservative types connect Social Darwinism to Hitler and say, see how evil Darwinism is and what it leads to...God created us to be Americans and fight for Israel! Zachariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15125568730356975076noreply@blogger.com