Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0005
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Basic Philosophical Questions","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Buddhist philosophy, which involves thinking hard, often in detailed terms, about what reality is really like. What is there? This is the most basic question one can ask when trying to figure out what reality is really like. Another important task is figuring out which things are fundamental, that is, which things depend on other things? The whole point of examining philosophical questions is to help solve the problem of how to live. However, even though knowledge plays an important role in Buddhism, not all knowledge is equally useful. This is not particular to Buddhism: There are lots of things we might know that will not make a difference to life. The central Buddhist idea is that solving the problem in a sustainable way involves forming and executing a plan in light of how the world really is. For Buddhists, a large part of this project involves finding and removing distorting ways of relating to the world.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121741247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0006
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Heaps and Hurricanes","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter assesses the prominent Buddhist view of collections. To talk about the wants, plans, and traits of a company or a government is really to talk about the members that make it up and their relationships. Although these collections can seem to be separately existing things in the world, they are just handy names for what makes them up. This is not to deny that these labels can be useful, at least for some purposes. Sometimes talking about things that do not really exist can be helpful and even teach people things. These labels are just the name people give to a bunch of parts that interact in ways that are relevant to them. Indeed, using handy names for certain collections is not necessarily bad. However, when one starts to think of those names as picking out something real in the world, one starts running into trouble.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114866564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0012
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Karma","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines karma. Karma, most literally, means action. Initially, it meant very specific ritual actions to bring about certain results. Later, the meaning of the term expanded and started to refer to all actions. Not only that, it is also used to refer to the effects of an individual’s actions and the connections between their actions and those effects. Given this basic idea of karma, it is important to highlight what it is not. People sometimes talk about the “law of karma.” People think of laws as having a lawmaker and an enforcer. However, karma is not like that—there is nobody writing the law and making sure it is enforced. In this sense, it is more like the law of gravity—it is a regularity in the way the world is; nobody has to write or enforce it. Moreover, karma is not some form of cosmic justice; it need not be about deserving the effects. Karma is not fate as well. The Buddha is clear that not all events are determined by karma.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115501444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seeing ClearlyPub Date : 2020-06-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0017
Nicolas Bommarito
{"title":"Varieties of Buddhist Practice","authors":"Nicolas Bommarito","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887506.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an overview of the wide variety of Buddhist practices. Though people who practice Buddhism would all self-identify as Buddhist, what Buddhism means to them and the role it plays in their lives is very different. Think about the social context. For some Buddhists, Buddhism is deeply intertwined with both family life and powerful social institutions. This social context affects how practice looks for each. The role of ritual is also different for each. Moreover, there are different background assumptions about the supernatural in play. Another difference is the place of meditation in the lives of each of these Buddhists. None of this is to say that any of these people are practicing “real” or “authentic” Buddhism. It is merely to highlight the ways in which Buddhist practice varies around the world.","PeriodicalId":253372,"journal":{"name":"Seeing Clearly","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121726962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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