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    Default Vasubandhu vs. Immanuel Kant

    Indian philosophy was ahead of European philosophy by only about 1,400 years.

    In Critique of Pure Reason (1781), Immanuel Kant argued the way the world seems is not an accurate reflection of how it really is. He said our minds create a picture of the world based on what we perceive through our senses.


    Vasubandhu was a 4th-century Buddhist monk. His Yogacara school teaches a form of metaphysical idealism-that the only things that exist are mental constructs. Other Buddhists had argued that we have no direct access to the external world, only to our perceptions; Vasubandhu further argued that our perceptions could exist entirely within our own minds. The world we think we observe is simply a projection of our desires and habits of thought.





    Source credit: Grant Hardy, PhD, University of North Carolina

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    Cypress never read Kant. Interesting that he opines in ignorance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Cypress never read Kant. Interesting that he opines in ignorance!!
    Your relentless resentment and overt hostility are of no concern to me, but may interest mental health professionals.

    I have not read the collected works and technical scientific publications of James Madison, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Newton either, but I have a basic working knowledge of their historical, political, and scientific significance. You might be amazed at how much you can learn from reading books, seminars, lectures, and magazines.

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    The take away for me is that East Asian and South Asian philosophers were asking the same questions the great minds of Europe were, in some cases centuries earlier, but they are virtually unknown in the West.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Cypress never read Kant. Interesting that he opines in ignorance.
    You've never read Augustine, Zhuangzi, Confucius, the Bhagavadgita, but you relentlessly opine about world religions.

    You're never actually read the full text various and sundry Supreme Court decisions, but you still opine on SCOTUS decisions.

    You've never read the full, actual text of any legislation passed by Biden and the Democratic congress, but you still opine on them.

    How were you able to opine on them without having read any of the original source material?

    Oh, that's right. It's because you acquired knowledge of these things by reading article, summaries, reviews, synopses published by journalists, opinion columnists, and subject matter experts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    You've never read Augustine, Zhuangzi, Confucius, the Bhagavadgita, but
    You are a pathological liar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    You are a pathological liar.
    So you do not deny that you acquire knowledge just like me, reading articles, books, summaries written by journalists, subject matter experts, scholars.



    And, after all these years, you are going to attempt to belatedly insinuate you have actually read the Analects, The Zhuangzi, the Bhagavad Gita --- do you lie your fat ass all the time like this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    So you do not deny that you acquire knowledge just like me, reading articles, books, summaries written by journalists, subject matter experts, scholars.



    And, after all these years, you are going to attempt to belatedly insinuate you have actually read the Analects, The Zhuangzi, the Bhagavad gita --- do you lie your fat ass all the time like this?
    you're a goddam asshole. I may just ban you from now on

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    you're a goddam asshole. I may just ban you from now on
    Make a frantic dash to Wikipedia to even figure out what those books are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Make a frantic dash to Wikipedia to even figure out what those books are.
    I've read those books. You're just a fucking lying piece of shit. Putting you on ignore for a while.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I've read those books. You're just a fucking lying piece of shit. Putting you on ignore for a while.
    Now you are just lying your fat ass off.


    Without frantically googling or cheating your ass off, what larger canonic Asian Vedic scriptural work is the Bhagavad Gita a part of?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Now you are just lying your fat ass off.


    Without frantically googling or cheating your ass off, what larger canonic Asian Vedic scriptural work is the Bhagavad Gita a part of?
    I can understand that after you blatantly lied your ass off, you would want to shield yourself from my posts.

    Now you are just lying your fat ass off.


    Without frantically googling or cheating your ass off, what larger canonic Asian Vedic scriptural work is the Bhagavad Gita a part of?

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    Okay, that is more than enough time to have given a direct answer if you knew it. It's possible you are off frantically googling.

    The correct answer is that the Bhagavad Gita is a small part of the larger epic Vedic scripture the Mahabharata.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I've read those books.

    You're just a fucking lying piece of shit. Putting you on ignore for a while.
    Strictly speaking, the Bhagavad Gita isn't a book, and neither is the Analects. Bhagavad Gita is a poem written in verse, and the Analects is a collection of sayings, anecdotes, and parables attributed to Master Kong, and compiled by his students long after his death.


    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...28#post5049628

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Okay, that is more than enough time to have given a direct answer if you knew it. It's possible you are off frantically googling.

    The correct answer is that the Bhagavad Gita is a small part of the larger epic Vedic scripture the Mahabharata.
    Unlike BidenPresident who just blatantly lied his ass off, in a very belated and insincere attempt to claim he supposedly read key works of the Asian philosophical and religious canon, I will be totally honest and transparent about what I have read from that tradition.

    I have read Analects, Bhagavad Gita, The Zhuangzi, and Sun Tzu.
    I plan on reading the Dao dejing.

    I don't have the time, stamina, or inspiration to read the entire Asian canon, so I rely on scholars to explain Vasubandhu, Zhu Xi, Mencius, etc. and the Therevada, Pure Land, and Zen Buddhist canon to me.

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