Tag: Eastern Philosophy
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Parmenides, the East, and the Question of Illusion
Across cultures and millennia, human thought has struggled with the same enigma: if Being is eternal, how do we account for the change and disappearance that fill our experience? Parmenides in Greece and the sages of the East each intuited the permanence of Being, yet consigned the world of appearances to illusion. Their insight was…
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Post 8 – Eternal Being and the Illusion of Change: Eastern Insights and Nihilistic Paradoxes
The East“For the soul, there is neither birth nor death at any time.It has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being.It is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, and primeval.It is not slain when the body is slain.”— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 20 This verse from the Bhagavad Gita…
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