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How do you know what the limits to Buddhism are? Have you tested the limits? Letting go of conceptions was one of Buddha's teachings. "Certain things are predo
by omarchowdhury 15y ago
How do you know what the limits to Buddhism are? Have you tested the limits?
Letting go of conceptions was one of Buddha's teachings. "Certain things are predominately innate" is a conception and holding on to that limits progress [1].
[1] Progress in this case means deliverance (enlightenment).
- codex 15y agoThere is no certainty, only degrees of belief. I don't "know" that the world is round--I haven't seen it from space and I haven't circumnavigated the globe, and I can't construct a proof. However, I'm "pretty damn sure" the world is round. If the human race restricted its belief to only those things it could be 100% sure of, we would still be in the Bronze Age. Similarly, I can't know that Buddhism can't levitate you off the ground and make you immortal, but I'm "pretty damn sure" it can't, and I wouldn't get any flack for saying so. There are many preconceptions I am comfortable letting go of, but not the ones I mentioned--at least not without extraordinary evidence.
- disgruntledphd2 15y agohttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304395907002436 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304395907... That was only a pilot study, but it does appear that meditation is useful for pain. A recent fmri study suggested that one year of meditation caused quite large changes in the experience of pain.