From the QandA section of our website: question Is Advayavada a religious Buddhism? answer Advayavada Buddhism is a non-dual philosophy and non-comparative way...
Hey Budd, I simply have no way to answer you as much as I would like. I can only say that, in God, in the Universal body, no 'kinds of' die, that is, all plant...
Thanks for this posting below regarding "Advayavada Buddhism" . Though I am of Buddhist background and uprbinging I should say that I have never heard of...
Myint Zan
zan_M@...
Mar 9, 2004 5:27 am
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Dear Myint Zan, The questioner used the term 'Great Silence' instead of the habitual 'Noble Silence' and we decided to refer to his term in our answer. John...
Dear Myint Zan and all, Please note that I can only speak for Advayavada Buddhism, as set out in our website. No doubt others can go in more deeply into your...
Last Thursday evening, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Prof. Jonathan Israel at the University of Amsterdam on <Monarchy, Orangism and ...
Help, Can someone help? In lecture 6, 7 James starts a paragraph with "But the world deals with us in actu and not in posse: " What does he mean by 'actu' and...
in actu: Latin, In reality in posse: possibility, Latin, to be able Tom, What of William James are you reading? Mark [Non-text portions of this message have...
Hi Mark, I am reading 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' I am completing lecture 6,7. Tom R. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
A while back I had made some remarks concerning the capitalization in Curley's vol.1. When I asked Dr. Nadler iva e-mail if he knew anything about the...
I just tried to get on Dr. Curleys site from the url I sent. It says page cannot be displayed. So go to the Univ. of Michigan at Flint and you can get to it...
The following is part of a response to a private email. I have summarized the correspondents questions though I left out some other topics. I believe that this...
Spinoza says that our affirmation of adequate ideas by reasoning may lead to the arising in us of desire to understand an idea by the third kind of knowledge....
Jesus supposedly said, "My yoke is easy," as if he were speaking of an ox in harness for tilling a field. However, while the yoke may be easy, perhaps finding...
Spinoza endeavored, like many philosophers, to find in the nature of things a rational sanction for individual conduct, from man's place in the world, relating...
I've made some comments more or less related to the content of your post, but I'm afraid they are a bit more of a "stream-of-consciousness" sort of expression...
I recently stumbled on a new book, purely by accident, that would be of interest to people here. It is: Looking For Spinoza/ Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain...
Kelly Timothy Lynch
ktlynch@...
Apr 10, 2004 6:56 pm
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First off, my e-mail has been down for about 4 days, I was just told their server is working now so we'll see if this gets through. Kelly-there's a lot of good...
Your "suspicions" of Aristotle, are from what I can tell, are correct. There's a bit of a story there though. Regarding primary and secondary notions, the 2...
It's important to keep in mind that Spinoza's method was devised to restore the intellect to it's original power, and enabling us to choose the best form of...
In a recent post I referred to "certain abstract ideas" by which a train of reasoning may be carried on independantly of language. I'm thinking this ties in...
In E2p40, schol.1, explains those notions called common and right after that he refers to >these< common notions as axioms or notions. You can find some of...
Hi All, The preceding message (#1077), with the common spam/virus Subject: "read it immediately" and the "From:" address which purports to be from me (Terry...
Hi Lance, Thanks, I mostly just wanted others who might not be familiar with such things to know that the statement in the message body: "something is going...
... I think this is too obviously more than possible; it is necessary that the cosmos is brimming over effusively with infinite cases of such realities. ...
Mark, The most difficult thing I deal with in Spinoza is getting his terminology down. I think it is a confusion of words that is giving you trouble. Extension...
... From: Mark D. Cunningham To: spinoza@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: for Sunhunter and Joe My apologies for the delayed...
