Talk:Buddhist philosophy

Permanence, Spinoza, Buddhism
Spinoza teaches that we should look for something permanent but " Buddhism teaches that such a quest is bound to fail. " ? Where does he teach that?

Nirvana IS permanent! The whole point of Buddhism is to disover what the Buddha in the Nikayas calls "the unborn" - that which transcends time. Let alone the Mahayana sutras who directly speak of the Nirvanic state as BLISS, THE SELF (Atman), and PERMANENT, ETERNAL, PURE. (Mahaparanirvana Sutra)

2002
I just wanted to thank the anonymous person who wrote this excellent start of an article on Buddhist philosophy. --Larry Sanger

I think that something about philosophy of Zen and other non-traditional Buddhist sects should be written. Taw


 * Many philosophers of Zen would maintain that Zen is anti-philosophy. :-)

I would like to see something about commonly practiced forms of Buddhism, such as Nichiren Buddhism, Tendai and Nembutsu. [bddougie]


 * (Nichiren Buddhism, Tendai Buddhism, Nembutsu Buddhism).

To my knowledge, the Buddha clearly states in the Pali Suttas that there is no self or soul (anatta). - Clive

Recent edits
I just made some pretty sweeping changes; the existing description was questionable on several points and vague on most, and I did my best to make clear some of the basic issues. However, this is still massively underdeveloped.&#2325;&#2369;&#2325;&#2381;&#2325;&#2369;&#2352;&#2379;&#2357;&#2366;&#2330;

The fact is that philosophy is different from religion and therefore should not be merged.

vegetarian
A bot changed vegetarians to vegetarians, since the former is a double-redirect. It was reverted back to the double-rd -- I'm not sure why. I changed it back. If you think it should be vegetarians again, let's discuss. Quadell (talk) 13:31, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)

Noumena
I'd love to see sources for your statement "IMHO The Buddha said that these 'noumena' are knowable via meditative states."