Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Causal Conundrum

A friend of ours from New York is in town for technical training, so we had him over for dinner. Afterwards we were talking about one of the paradoxes of Buddhism. On the one hand, Buddhism stresses individual experience. On the other hand, it holds that there is no real self.

So how do you get individual experience if there's no real self?

It's like getting milk from a cow
That's not really there anyhow.

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