Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Buddha hoga tera baap!

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
-Buddha

But Buddha, what about confirmation bias???

Surely, an enlightened man such as you must know that we humans like to believe only in what we already believe to be true.
Common sense is a moot point with most humans.
It is far more convenient than to constantly change your beliefs based on new evidence(be it true or false), and would surely drive a normal man such as me towards insanity.
Only a Buddha would not go insane.
I am not Buddha...not yet...but philosoraptors say that meta-recognition is the first step towards being Buddha.

Buddha hoga tera baap...and someday maybe myself too.

The great Taoist master Chuang Tzu once dreamt that he was a butterfly fluttering here and there.
In  the  dream  he  had  no  awareness  of  his  individuality  as  a  person.  He  was  only  a  butterfly.
Suddenly, he awoke and found himself laying there, a person once again. But then he thought to
himself, "Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who
dreams about being a man?"

I wish I knew when I was dreaming and when I was zzzz...

Be a zen master.                            
                When the spiritual teacher and his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat that lived in the monastery made such noise that it distracted them. So the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice. Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery  and  tied  up.  Centuries  later,  learned  descendants  of  the  spiritual  teacher  wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice. 

8 comments:

  1. i hate that story about the cat. reminds me of the 5 monkeys and a banana experiment.

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  2. Hahaha... the monkey experiment came to mind too...

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  3. Perhaps Buddha was talking to.. um.. 2 year olds? Certainly the concept of embarrassment, religion, racial prejudice was taught and not intrinsic. Adults are full of garbage and baggage.

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  4. "But Buddha, what about confirmation bias???" -- that made me laugh! That's pretty witty.

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  5. Someone had posted the buddha quote on facebook...and I wanted to ask the poster if they knew about confirmation bias...but being non confrontational as I am, this post was tyre end product.

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  6. The guy who posted this is one of those guys who like to post philosophical quotes to show how deep he is...most out us hate that guy because we've all been him at one point or the other.

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  7. The title of the post is a play on words an indian movie title that was recently released.

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  8. I a word in the above comment.My bad:-(

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