#erik hoogcarspel

[fangednominals]

Erik Hoogcarspel talking about Nagarjuna in a podcast

Host: "How does Nagarjuna's use of the tetralemma relate to the idea of dependent arising? Is it because you can look at things from all these different perspectives?"

Hoogcarspel: "Well, logic is based on ontology. In Aristotle's predicate logic, a predicate implies a subject, or a substance, to which the predicate applies." Host: "But there is no such substance?"

Hoogcarspel: "No, so the predicates... Are up in the air, as it were, they are no longer certain."

Host: "You can't have logic; you can't talk about it." Hoogcarspel: "No, because there is nothing that you are talking about."

[fangednominals]

"As a Buddhist, you may be able to use the Internet as an exercise. It is in fact a caricature of saṃsāra. Desire, envy, anger, illusion and emptiness are even easier to understand there. If you can learn to see the screen of your cell phone as a kind of complicated lamp where nothing is happening, perhaps you can also understand that the reality in which you live is a kind of openness where really nothing is happening. If you observe how your indignation or your desire arises because your imagination and the rays of light of this intricate lamp work together, you may also be able to observe how your body and the phenomena together bring about the restlessness of your mind."

- Erik Hoogcarspel