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Summary
In these texts materialism is the view based on matter, the way of science, and it contradicts idealism, the way of religion. Yet matter is a concept human beings made for what we perceive through our senses, so it is not reality itself; scientific materialism also gives no measure of good and bad.
Part of ↑ Buddhist philosophy ↑ religion and science
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matter is a kind of concept which human beings made
Introduction to Master Dogen’s Thought May 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijima
Texts
- MMK 3: Cutting Through Categories ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s MulamadhyamakakarikaAbhidharma analysis of matter · meditative insight as imagination
The Abhidharma enumerates twenty-eight types of material phenomena
- Three Philosophies and One Reality ●●●human value · matter as a human concept
Although materialists think that matter is reality itself, it is only a concept invented by the intellect to explain that something we see out there.
- Introduction to Master Dogen’s Thought ●●● May 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijimadesk useful for writing a letter · matter as a human concept
matter is a kind of concept which human beings made
- The Relation Between the Autonomic Nervous System and Buddhism ●●●sympathetic idealism, parasympathetic materialism
when people have a stronger SNS they are prone to be idealistic, and when people have a stronger PNS they are prone to be materialistic
- Ikka-no-myoju 2: Undivided Reality ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myojuparticles or an indivisible whole
should we say that it is only an accumulation of particles, or should we conclude that it is something indivisible and whole
- Understanding the Shobogenzo ●●●conflict between idealism and materialism
The discovery of this area and the clarification of its nature in philosophical terms solves the problem of the conflict between idealism and materialism.
- MMK 1: The Four Conditions ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikaparticles or an indivisible whole
is it some deep, flowing flux in which little whirlpools appear and the little whirlpool might be me or you
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Ideas (5) matter as a human concept2 Abhidharma analysis of matter human value meditative insight as imagination sympathetic idealism, parasympathetic materialism
Themes (2) particles or an indivisible whole2 conflict between idealism and materialism
Images and stories (1) desk useful for writing a letter