[Buddha-l] Re: Emptiness

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Dante Rosati schreef:
> On 10/23/07, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 17:43, Dante Rosati wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> "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.
>>>       
>> Why?
>>     
>
> both can be deconstructed, for example a la madhymaka, to show that
> they are not designations of anything, but just designations. so if
> there is no actual "body" or "mind" then where do designations come
> from? our immediate experience of the actual present is not a
> designation (my designation of it is not the experience itself, merely
> a conceptual pointing).
>   
You mix both truthlevels. If you're asking 'where is x going to or 
coming from' you treat x as an entity. In paramaarthasatya no going to 
or coming from exists.

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Erik

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