? TBC I think the claims about suffering in Buddhism are claims about how our mammalian nervous systems happen to be wired and ways you can improve it.
This seems like quite a western modern take on buddhism
it feels hard to read the original buddha this way
i just don’t see the buddha making any reference to nervous systems or mammalians when he talks about suffering(not even some sort of pali equivalent that points to the materialist understanding at the time)
This seems like quite a western modern take on buddhism
it feels hard to read the original buddha this way
Note I didn’t say ‘the claims of buddhism’ as a whole.
i just don’t see the buddha making any reference to nervous systems or mammalians when he talks about suffering(not even some sort of pali equivalent that points to the materialist understanding at the time)