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94 Derrida Meets Nagarjuna, with Peter Salmon

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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What Do We Do About Language?

Even in traditions like buddhism, which take very seriously the idea of anosunata, or emptiness, they always end up reproducing these identities that they perform. Some meditators who take the stuff seriously come up against this at some point. And they often lack the language to actually talk about it. So what's the way of getting round that? Well, i found these process relational ontologies veryvery help furward in thinking about this. You've got to start saying that there's not a self, but you engage in processes of selfing. If you can then have a conversation about your direct, phenomenological, subjectiveex nce of this, and you have

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