“The newly discovered fifth noble truth is that all other noble truths are subject to change without notice; obviously, this last truth is the noblest of the five.”
It was a spoof – a joke.
It reminded me that, only a few days ago, I discovered a collection of laughing Buddhas in the local Curiosity Shoppe. It was said that if you rub one of the pot bellies a customer will appear.
These two topics clicked and a set of words rather than full sentences appeared. These four were the first -
• Irreverent – humorous – radical – different.
And then several more appeared. I have tidied them and laid them out in bullet points -
• unattached from viewpoints – take situations as they come – no absolutes
• on which side of the argument? – how many sides?
• consilience – reconciliation -
• metacognition –– big history – doing a helicopter - cosmic zoom
• orthogonal, beyond either/or ––
• defrozen and refrozen – cognitive dissonance/consonance –
• awake to and aware of thoughts and feelings - engaged Buddhism
Orthogonal = involving right angles; perpendicular. A third dimensional perspective that encompasses and transcends the normal, bipolar continuum of viewpoints (eg normal = left to right in politics: orthogonal = comparative review of simplistic either/or thinking.)
Consilience = the joining together of knowledge and information across disciplines to create a unified framework of understanding
I have grown a substantial pot belly. But this in itself is not a guarantee of being enlightened. :-)
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