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Follow-up from my daughter: if every choice depends on conditions, is anyone free?
Yesterday you helped me explain dependent origination to my fourteen-year-old. Thank you again. She liked the rice. Then she asked the next question, as I said she would. If everything arises from conditions, then my choices also arise from conditions: my mood,…
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Aristotle says a young person can’t be happy. I’m twenty-two. Is he insulting me or does he have a point?
My uncle (the one who quotes Nyerere) has started quoting Aristotle as well, which is worse. At dinner he said Aristotle proved I am too young to be happy, and everybody laughed. I looked it up. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Book I,…
Started by Baraka Mwakyusa3 replies -
What are the “objectives of the law” (maqāṣid) that people keep mentioning, and why do they matter?
In a discussion at our mosque youth group, one speaker kept saying that a ruling has to be understood "through the maqāṣid", the objectives or purposes of the sharia. Another person said this is exactly how people end up ignoring the texts.…
Started by Fajar Nugroho3 replies -
What does dependent origination actually claim? My daughter asked and I had no answer
My daughter is fourteen. Last week, stuck in traffic near Borella, she asked me what paṭicca samuppāda means. I have heard the word at the temple my whole life. I said "it means everything is connected", and she said that sounds like…
Started by Nuwan Perera4 replies