Timeline for How does the 'Great Doubt' compare to doubt?
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 1:31 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov♦ | @CrabBucket I think they are related - but not as synonyms. It's more like, spiritual despair is a temporary stop on the road to Great Doubt. With G.D. one can't despair, because despair requires being certain that one is screwed, but with G.D. you can't really tell - perhaps you are the happiest person of all. Which only makes it even more frustrating, because you can't even complain. (In my experience; YMMV) | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 23:10 | comment | added | Crab Bucket | @AndreiVolkov. Thank you for the reference and the answer. That feels helpful. Stephanie's post talks of spiritual despair - is that a synonym for the 'Great Doubt' do you think? | |
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| Jan 20, 2019 at 13:52 | comment | added | Codosaur | I must respectfully disagree with Stephanie: what she calls "skeptical doubt" is actually encouraged by the Buddha in the Avatamsaka Sutra. It is also what Buddhism has in common with the scientific method.It can hardly be argued that skeptical thinking does not take us out of our "box", otherwise mankind would never have discovered Evolution, Quantum Mechanics or Relativity. Otherwise, according to her definition, we would have to state that Darwin, Einstein and Heisenberg experienced Great Doubt since their theories clearly go beyond "the answers that usually comfort and reassure us". | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 23:35 | history | edited | Andriy Volkov♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2019 at 23:27 | history | answered | Andriy Volkov♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |