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In a sense it's kind of tautological: if someone genuinely experiences something, if "reality" is the only existent realm or category they have knowledge of (as
by mistermann 2y ago
In a sense it's kind of tautological: if someone genuinely experiences something, if "reality" is the only existent realm or category they have knowledge of (as opposed to Maya for example), then it basically has to "be" reality.
Also relevant:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Another good analogy would be how people used to talk about the physical world before science arrived on the scene: crude approximations, that "everyone knows".
- rramadass 2y agoYou have to be careful here. Hindu/Buddhist Philosophy is mainly experiential and explicitly says "the true self" (Purusha/Atman etc.) cannot be described in words. It can only be experienced by "dissolving" ("Laya" in Sanskrit) your self-identity (aka Ahamkara) as something different from the "whole" (Brahman etc). Different schools come at this from different angles thus complicating the matter even further.
- mistermann 2y agoNo disagreement here!