[Buddha-l] What is direct experience?

[lemmett at talk21.com]

> >>> see alfred korzybski (general semantics) the
> >> structural
> >>> differential.
> >>> if you're serious.


thanks erik! someone mentioned in this old discussion, that they were uncomfortable with the analogy between psychosis and direct experience. can i try to explain a little? not got so much to say but - isn't it possible for psychosis to bring out experiences like the luminosity of awareness or the "environment" ,in which case i did wonder how that can be differentiated from these "True" states of mind associated with Buddhism. hence the question... make sense? should i track down something by korzybski?



i did have another query to add while i'm bothering the list. 

what exactly is the existence of emptiness in Yogacara? i ask because my uneducated guess is that it is the essence of the separate teaching of the two truths for Zhiyi, what differentiates it form Madhyamika or the shared teaching. a pretty basic question maybe but i'm especially concerned with how it might effect a theory of truth or the status of conventional truths.



thanks - and i'm glad to see that the list is still running some


luke