Hm, if by “discovering” you mean Dropping all fixed priors Making direct contact with reality (which is without any ontology) And then deep insight emerges And then after-the-fact you construct an ontology that is most beneficial based on your discovery
Then I’m on board with that
And yet I still claim that ontology is insufficient, imperfect, and not actually gonna work in the end.
‘these practices grant unmediated access to reality’ sounds like a metaphysical claim. The Buddha’s take on his system’s relevance to metaphysics seems pretty consistently deflationary to me.
I don’t know how else to phrase it, but I would like to not contradict interdependent origination. While still pointing toward what happens when all views are dropped and insight becomes possible.
Hm, if by “discovering” you mean
Dropping all fixed priors
Making direct contact with reality (which is without any ontology)
And then deep insight emerges
And then after-the-fact you construct an ontology that is most beneficial based on your discovery
Then I’m on board with that
And yet I still claim that ontology is insufficient, imperfect, and not actually gonna work in the end.
‘these practices grant unmediated access to reality’ sounds like a metaphysical claim. The Buddha’s take on his system’s relevance to metaphysics seems pretty consistently deflationary to me.
I don’t know how else to phrase it, but I would like to not contradict interdependent origination. While still pointing toward what happens when all views are dropped and insight becomes possible.