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The study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language. It can also be a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour.
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What are "Supernatural mental abilities" in relation to Buddhism?
I'll talk about remembering past lives specifically, but first I want to comment more generally on the "supernatural" in the question. It creates a small problem in that it implies there is a "natural …
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How compatible are Buddhism and Communism?
Communism is taken to mean a lot of different things, but at its essential core is simply the notion that the means of production -- i.e. land, factories, and so on -- should be collectively, not priv …
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What is the difference between learning the Buddhist way and simply learning from life?
If your knowledge of western philosophy extends to the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger, think of Buddhism as, in part, applied phenomenology.
Analogy time. …
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Is it true that Physics confirms some of the Buddha's teachings?
After all, "Physics" was often called, until only very recently, "Natural Philosophy". But it wasn't at that point a "scientific" idea. It was metaphysics. …
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So many Buddhist schools!
Aldous Huxley's "Perennial Philosophy" -- we will see convergence. …
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A Buddhist Point of View of Virtual Reality
I suggest you take a look at comparisons between the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and that of Nagarjuna. (Professional analytic philosophers may be knee-jerking like crazy here, but I'll persist.) …
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How to combine Buddhism with being a parent?
There was an interesting thread on this a few years back at Dharma Overground, where Stefanie Dunning gave a parental viewpoint. The "Actual Freedom" she mentions is some kind of modern very hard to u …
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Do metta practices and anatta contradict each other?
The concept of anatta does not assert that there is no such thing as a self at all, but rather that whatever self is, it's not permanent, separate, etc. So in your own formulation, "no fixed self", th …