Hatred is a more basic formation than anger?
It can’t just be a coincidence that mindfulness waters wholesome seeds and encourages unwholesome ones to return to store consciousness. What does that mean/what explains it?
The wave is already water. Is the view that you are your pattern, not this instance of your pattern, or just an aggregate of parts, or this animal, the same as the view that the wave is more absolute, or the opposite? How could you compare it to real patterns views? Or just literally explain it with the game of life.
- more generally analytic-metaphysicsising Buddhism would be interesting but probably largely counterproductive. But it would be funny to use quine as a sutra.
Which of the 3x3 matrix squares of not located/located/extended in time vs space are possible?
Which elements of the path are necessary? I guess all BC interbeing.
How do the two truths or four standards relate to analogical and other truths in biblical criticism?
Aimlessness, 3rd door of liberation, apranihita, see the avatamsaka sutra
Wheel turning king idea is good example of material selection of ideas/straightforward ideology. I guess the Dalai lama and Mongol equivalent too?
Interesting the origins of mindfulness (was it Burma) as an easier version of meditation the laity could preserve if the monastics were persecuted.
Is it suspicious that modern Buddhism offers a respite from suffering to laypeople via easy practices instead of the exchange of merit via donations? Were there predecessors? Other breakdowns of the monks/laity distinction?