jade ☀’s Reviews > Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment > Status Update

"(the perception of essence) smuggles judgements into our mind by cloaking them in feelings that are themselves so subtle, or at least so routine, to often escape conscious recognition."

wasn't expecting sudden criticism of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but it was definitely appreciated

tho two seconds later the author says, "everything is empty of inherent existence. things, forms, come into existence in our consciousness only after we've taken some combination of elements in our perceptual field and imposed a collective meaning on them." and its like ok brother gimme a second here

pretty sure im only absorbing about half of this info so far, gonna assume my brain is a super computer and keep chuggin tho 🫡