Would the statement "ultimately everything is false" be subject
to itself too? If everything is false, then so is that
statement!
hah, indeed, there's a profound notion of emptiness of
emptiness. :)
http://www.amazon.com/Emptiness-Introduction-Madhyamka-National-Technical/dp/0824817125
u miss out
the word ultimately.
which mean in the noumenon aspect.
beside my word
"false" is not
the conventional, it is to mean sunyata, fake, illusion, middle
way. a Buddhist will understand the meaning, but maybe not from
your outsider perspective hence ur refute.
reminded of :-
The Parable of the Burning House
appears in Chapter 3 ( the Hiyu Chapter ) of the Lotus Sutra. In
this parable a scenario is presented where children are in great
danger in a house on fire :-
One day, a fire broke out in the house of a wealthy man who had
many children. The wealthy man shouted at his children inside the
burning house to flee. But, the children were absorbed in their
games and did not heed his warning, though the house was being
consumed by flames.
Then, the wealthy man devised a practical way to lure the children
from the burning house. Knowing that the children were fond of
interesting playthings, he called out to them, "Listen! Outside the
gate are the carts that you have always wanted: carts pulled by
goats, carts pulled by deer, and carts pulled by oxen. Why don't
you come out and play with them?" The wealthy man knew that these
things would be irresistible to his children.
The children, eager to play with these new toys rushed out of the
house but, instead of the carts that he had promised, the father
gave them a cart much better than any he has described - a cart
draped with precious stones and pulled by white bullocks. The
important thing being that the children were saved from the dangers
of the house on fire.
In this parable the father, of course, is the Buddha and sentient
beings are the children trapped in the burning house. The Burning
House represents the world burning with the fires of old age,
sickness and death. The teachings of the Buddha are like the father
getting the boys to leave their pleasures for a greater pleasure,
Nirvana.
A further interpretation is to see the the goat, deer, and ox carts
as representing the early teachings of Buddhism, as the teachings
of Hinayana Buddhism (the Mahayana term for the Buddhism that
preceded it), and the cart pulled by white bullocks to 'The Lotus
Sutra' which, when followed, leads to Buddhahood.
the lie is false, but that does not mean it's ineffective to
lure one from danger. the Buddha dharma is also in this
manner.
the word "Right" in Buddhism simply mean, don't harm yourself
and others.
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