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**User-Luser** · 09-12-2012, 04:09 AM

I dunno much about Solipsim or Buddhism really but it is from reading Buddhist teaching and hearing a quote from the philosopher Henri Bergson that I made the original post, which is not my "opinion". What are opinions or views worth? Which is the correct view of a house?

Is this not Buddhism: a "chair" exists, in the form of the various elements or parts which are given the label "chair" by us. The parts, labelled chair, exist. The Chair itself is a mere label, or attribution by mind.

There is the collection of parts, upon which we impute the "chair". This works, as a practical arrangement, and seems true to reality.

The problems arise when we begin to believe that the "chair" really exists in an independent sense, other than as a mere aggregate of parts given a label of "chair".

The parts are real enough, relatively speaking. In relation to my toe, they are pretty solid, as I discover if I stub my toe against them. But the "chair"? What is that, beyond a creation of mind?

Is that Buddhism, or solipsism?

09-12-2012, 04:09 AM	#20
User-Luser Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 430 Senior Member	I dunno much about Solipsim or Buddhism really but it is from reading Buddhist teaching and hearing a quote from the philosopher Henri Bergson that I made the original post, which is not my "opinion". What are opinions or views worth? Which is the correct view of a house? Is this not Buddhism: a "chair" exists, in the form of the various elements or parts which are given the label "chair" by us. The parts, labelled chair, exist. The Chair itself is a mere label, or attribution by mind. There is the collection of parts, upon which we impute the "chair". This works, as a practical arrangement, and seems true to reality. The problems arise when we begin to believe that the "chair" really exists in an independent sense, other than as a mere aggregate of parts given a label of "chair". The parts are real enough, relatively speaking. In relation to my toe, they are pretty solid, as I discover if I stub my toe against them. But the "chair"? What is that, beyond a creation of mind? Is that Buddhism, or solipsism?
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