“the Centrist approach of presenting mere conditionality without analysis is in clear opposition to any reifications of asserting arising from the four… — Karl Brunnholzl Cause and effect Copy Share Image
“The Sutra That Unravels the Intention states: Here, the Buddha teaches the five characteristics of the ultimate. The five characteristics of the… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Since Buddhist studies and practices are designed to influence our most ingrained habitual tendencies, they generally represent processes that naturally require repeated… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Elsewhere Buton says that the distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists is a conceptual construct by Tibetans that is not found in India.… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“However, there is the danger in all broad categorizations, such as the classification of Buddhist teachings as self-empty or other-empty, that they… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“O Manjusri, in the world, there are two types of persons who destroy the genuine dharma: those who have strong views about… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“In brief, Centrists focus more on the objective side and dissolve all reference points within the mind, including mind itself. In this… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“Thus, it is seen that the expanse of dharmas is not an object of speech, reflection, or expression. It is for just… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“In fact, in much the same way as the Centrists, Yogacaras like Asanga and Vasuhandhu introduce and employ expedient concepts, such as… — Karl Brunnholzl Different level Copy Share Image
“If you first fix a horn on the head of a rabbit and then remove it again, the rabbit might wonder what… — Karl Brunnholzl Life Copy Share Image
“The Sutra of the Arrival in Lanka says: In the future, those who cling to non-Buddhist thinking will conceive of the wisdom… — Karl Brunnholzl Personal experience Copy Share Image
“Prajnapdramita sutras sav: In the perfection of knowledge, no [notions] such as "form is permanent" or "form is impermanent" are observable. If… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest right within profound knowledge's seeing that is without seeing anything and… — Karl Brunnholzl Knowledge Copy Share Image
“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either,… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“According to the teachings of the Buddha and the Indian commentaries, however, such direct seeing of emptiness is precisely what happens in… — Karl Brunnholzl Education Copy Share Image
“However, despite their synthesis of Yogacara and Centrism, all Yogacara-Madhyamikas, such as Jnanagarbha, Santaraksita, Kamalasila, and Haribhadra, unanimously refute the notion of… — Karl Brunnholzl Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Conventionally though, not realizing this [undifferentiable unity] is labeled "the phase of cyclic existence," while its realization, just as it is, [is… — Karl Brunnholzl Life Copy Share Image
“Eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje's commentary on Ike Ornament of Clear Realization says: This basis-the nature of phenomena-is neither other-empty nor self-empty, because… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, using precise philosophical categories and analyses in scriptures such as the Centrist ones, whose primary aim is to… — Karl Brunnholzl Philosophy Copy Share Image
“what Nagarjuna and Candrakirti demonstrated so extensively is precisely that nothing makes sense when it is analyzed, not even such ordinary, everyday… — Karl Brunnholzl Meaning of life Copy Share Image
“[O]ne could assume an incompatibility, at one and the same level of reference, between two philosophical propositions, both of which cannot be… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Its meaning is to rest one-pointedly on the focal object [of meditation], without being distracted by other thoughts. If this [one-pointed resting]… — Karl Brunnholzl Focus Copy Share Image
“Thus, what remains after the adventitious stains are realized to be non-existent is clearly not some reified entity, but the naturally pure… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“the expression "illusionlike arising and ceasing without real existence" that is used by Centrists refers to passages that prove that, from the… — Karl Brunnholzl Life Copy Share Image
