PHILOS 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Middle Way, Impermanence, Semicircle
4 Mar 2019
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Three dots: parts to path of enlightment. Right faith/perception: having a proper picture of the world. Right knowledge: 5 kinds of knowledge: sensory, scriptural, clairvoyance, telepathy, omniscience (those who are fully enlightened know everything) Semicircle and the last dot: siddhashila, the realm of the enlightened. Siddhas (liberated ones), those who have conquered all their passions (through ascetic practices) They exist forever in an enlightened omniscient state: another aspect of ahimsa. This intellectual polarization is a kind of violence (the jain way: compromise position is that the world contains both permanence and impermanence, jainism"s view of other religion. Broadly speaking there are three types of views: Exclusivism: our views are right , everyone else is wrong , the wrong people will have bad things happen to them . Inclusivism: our views are right , other people are wrong, at least sometimes , but others can be right enough for good things to happen .
