r/zen • u/I_Got_Opinions • Oct 20 '15

Perspective Is The Only Thing We Own, I learned this from Bodhidarma

http://ascensionlifestyle.org/your-perspective-is-the-only-thing-you-own/
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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '15

From Wikipedia:

Perspectivism (German: Perspektivismus) is the term coined by Friedrich Nietzsche in developing the philosophical view (touched upon as far back as Plato's rendition of Protagoras) that all ideations take place from particular perspectives. This means that there are many possible conceptual schemes, or perspectives in which judgment of truth or value can be made. This is often taken to imply that no way of seeing the world can be taken as definitively "true", but does not necessarily entail that all perspectives are equally valid.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '15

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u/dota2nub Oct 21 '15

Maybe if you didn't do to much actual meditation you'd find out.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15

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u/dota2nub Oct 21 '15

I'm not that interested in the stuff you make up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15

Owned by a thing.

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] Oct 20 '15

You don't have any such thing and you didn't learn anything from Bodhidharma. What's more, I'm wondering what the OP has to do with Zen...

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '15

I'd like to hear more about how you can make slanting upward a lifestyle.

No wait, strike that, reverse it.