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> "I'm from India and I find it hard to communicate with western people these ideas directly." I'm from a Western country, and understand what you're saying, t
by ZenoArrow 10y ago
> "I'm from India and I find it hard to communicate with western people these ideas directly."
I'm from a Western country, and understand what you're saying, though I admit I did pick up on the general idea from Eastern philosophy.
If you were interested in sharing the ideas with Western people, perhaps you could do so in the form of thought experiment? For example (and this is only an example, I'm confident this won't be the best example for everyone), you could point out how much of human life exists at the subconscious level. Nobody knows how the mind works, yet the mind works regardless. Nobody consciously tells their bodies how to process food, or repair itself after it's damaged, yet it happens anyway. Considering the myriad of processes that the subconscious undertakes, wouldn't it be fair to say a large part of what makes us 'us' exists at the subconscious level?
That's not to say the 'narrative' side of our mind is not part of us too, but if that's all we know perhaps we're missing the bigger picture.
- elmigranto 10y agoThis is probably a bad example, since the same very thing happens in animals. Yet we like to think of ourselves as fundamentally different.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago> "Yet we like to think of ourselves as fundamentally different." Yes, we do don't we. Yet reality remains what it is. Perhaps by exploring with an open mind we can stop our preconceived notions from clouding our understanding.