ALB wrote:stuartw2112
For Dietzgen gravity is not a force on its own but a description and explanation for particular events we repeatedly and regularly observe and can predict in the world of phenomena. On the other hand, Buddha’s Seventh Heaven is a figment of the imagination and exists as that, ie it’s a real figment of the imagination.
I’ve just been reading a Buddhist writer talking about the different realms, and he says, in common with every other Buddhist writer I’ve read, that the most important thing to remember is that these realms are “a projection of your own mind”, or, as you have it, a “figment of the imagination and exists as that”. So you’re more Buddhist than you know.But anyway, we weren’t talking about the different realms, but about “the practical world of sense perceptions, [where] there is nothing permanent, nothing homogeneous, nothing beyond nature, nothing like a “thing itself.” Everything is changing, passing, phantomlike, so to say. One phantom is chased by another”. Which couldn’t be more Buddhist (“mystical”) if you tried.