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**lalffibra** · 04-08-2011, 07:15 AM

Just out from the Topic...

This 18th Western philosophy, when I came in touch with it, I really run away... I felt there was a huge amount of mental entanglements and suffering not clearly understood neither resolved.

Yeah. I think part of the problem with a lot of Western philosophy is that much of it is just made up stuff of no real consequence -- basically, it creates unsolvable problems out of thin air, and proceeds to obsess over them. What saves Buddhism's philosophy from this fate is that the Buddha built his ideas around "dukkha and the end of dukkha" -- it isn't just mental fabrications, but something of real consequence in how we go about living our lives.

04-08-2011, 07:15 AM	#20
lalffibra Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 373 Senior Member	Just out from the Topic... This 18th Western philosophy, when I came in touch with it, I really run away... I felt there was a huge amount of mental entanglements and suffering not clearly understood neither resolved. Yeah. I think part of the problem with a lot of Western philosophy is that much of it is just made up stuff of no real consequence -- basically, it creates unsolvable problems out of thin air, and proceeds to obsess over them. What saves Buddhism's philosophy from this fate is that the Buddha built his ideas around "dukkha and the end of dukkha" -- it isn't just mental fabrications, but something of real consequence in how we go about living our lives.
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