[Buddha-l] Re: Emptiness

[Dante Rosati]

On 10/23/07, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> What does the designating? Perhaps the body acting in ways that we choose to
> call mental. There is no compelling reason to rule that out. By calling the
> instument of designating and naming "mind", one is already showing one's
> prejudices.

"mind" and "body" are both designations. there must be something prior
to them that is able to designate both from a position that is
neither.

> For various reasons I am drawn to monistic views of mind-body whereby what we
> call "mind" and what we call "body" are as intimately related as what we
> call "matter" and what we call "energy." Matter can be seen as a state of
> energy and vice versa, and to call either one as primary and the other
> secondary does not make a great deal of sense. Similarly, to speak of "mind"
> and "body" as two essentially different kinds of thing that are mysteriously
> related does not seem very promising. Equally unpromising is to say that one
> end of the mind-body continuum is primary. To have a preference for one over
> the other seems to me like bad science and bad philosophy and even worse
> Buddhism.

agreed. so what is it that is prior to all designation?

Dante