The Metaphysical Foundation of Buddhism and Modern Science
The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science: Nagarjuna and Alfred North Whitehead
The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science: Nagarjuna and Alfred North Whitehead
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retreats others into a background enriching the total enjoyment. <strong>The</strong><br />
attitude <strong>of</strong> introspection shares this characteristic with all other<br />
experimental occasions. It lifts the clear-cut data <strong>of</strong> sensations into<br />
primacy, <strong>and</strong> cloaks the vague compulsions <strong>and</strong> derivations which form the<br />
main stuff <strong>of</strong> experience. In particular it rules out that intimate sense <strong>of</strong><br />
derivation from the body, which is the reason for our instinctive<br />
identification <strong>of</strong> our bodies with ourselves.<br />
In order to discover some <strong>of</strong> the major categories under which we can<br />
classify the infinitely various components <strong>of</strong> experience, we must appeal<br />
to evidence relating to every variety <strong>of</strong> occasion. Nothing can be omitted,<br />
experience drunk <strong>and</strong> experience sober, experience sleeping <strong>and</strong><br />
experience waking, experience drowsy <strong>and</strong> experience wide-awake,<br />
experience self-conscious <strong>and</strong> experience self-forgetful, experience<br />
intellectual <strong>and</strong> experience physical, experience religious <strong>and</strong> experience<br />
sceptical, experience anxious <strong>and</strong> experience care-free, experience<br />
anticipatory <strong>and</strong> experience retrospective, experience happy <strong>and</strong><br />
experience grieving, experience dominated by emotion <strong>and</strong> experience<br />
under self-restraint, experience in the light <strong>and</strong> experience in the dark,<br />
experience normal <strong>and</strong> experience abnormal.<br />
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