Remove whatever cultural or personal contextual trappings you find draped over a particular expression of Buddhism, and you’ll find it very clear that Buddhism does “allow” that, or more precisely, un-asks that question.
As you chip away at unfounded beliefs, including the belief in an essential self (however defined), or the belief that there can be a “problem to solved” independent of a context for its specification, you may arrive at the realization of a view of the world flipped inside-out, with everything working just as before, less a few paradoxes.
The wisdom of “adult” problem-solving is not so much about knowing the “right” answers and methods, but about increasingly effective knowledge of what doesn’t work. And from the point of view of any necessarily subjective agent in an increasingly uncertain world, that’s all there ever was or is.
“I don’t think that even Buddhism allows that.”
Remove whatever cultural or personal contextual trappings you find draped over a particular expression of Buddhism, and you’ll find it very clear that Buddhism does “allow” that, or more precisely, un-asks that question.
As you chip away at unfounded beliefs, including the belief in an essential self (however defined), or the belief that there can be a “problem to solved” independent of a context for its specification, you may arrive at the realization of a view of the world flipped inside-out, with everything working just as before, less a few paradoxes.
The wisdom of “adult” problem-solving is not so much about knowing the “right” answers and methods, but about increasingly effective knowledge of what doesn’t work. And from the point of view of any necessarily subjective agent in an increasingly uncertain world, that’s all there ever was or is.
Certainty is always a special case.