11 ideas
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
18344 | Truth and falsehood must track what does or doesn't exist [Bigelow] |
18933 | Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
9866 | Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato] |
5864 | Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias] |
14409 | I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow] |
7904 | The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha] |
7905 | The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha] |
7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |