Buddhism - Part Two, Dialectics and Transformation

We are always talking to ourselves in our heads. We are always grabbing at pleasure and trying to push pain away. To be liberated from all of this is to feel ourselves be completely at home in the world, to be the very cosmos we think is outside of us. It is my contention which I will defend throughout the rest of this section that the philosophical framework of dialectical materialism found and developed within the Marxist tradition has profound overlap with core Buddhist concepts. After exploring dialectics I will turn to an investigation of the three poisons found within Buddhism and attempt to show how these poisons of the individual mind manifest themselves in capitalist institutions and social structures. Part Two, dialectics and transformation.