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>From: dlyndes@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Lyndes)
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Subject: Re: mean,meaner,MEANING-est/ intention-and-self the buddhist way
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In article <1992Mar3.014029.21683@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>, petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson) writes:
|> Eric Silber states:
|> 
|> According to Buddhist tradition of analysis of the self, it is
|> the absence of intension which allows the self to be fully present.
|> Also, the deepest understanding, in the buddhist view, comes when
|> one is freed from intentionality.
|> 
|> 
|> How can one analyze the self without intentionality?  Somehow
|> I dont believe that Buddhist analyze the self at all.  To
|> analyze the self is to cloud the self with intent. 

- "Think about non-thinking."
- "How do I think about non-thinking?"
- "Non-thinking."
            - Dogen, fukan zazen gi.
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              (I think that's the right book)

In some schools, analysis of the self leads to nothing, literally.  There
is no SELF to be found.  It is merely an illusion to think that there is.
This does NOT imply that there is no intelligence.  One possible
way to have intelligence without a SELF is that intelligence is the result
of a dispersed bunch of processes.  See D. Dennett's, _Consciousness_Explained_
if you are interested in how one might cash this out in more detail.
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