Rethinking the Buddha Quotes

“Indeed, if we could experience the full cognitive gamut of eating an orange, that experience in itself would have to be classed as “mystical.”
― Eviatar Shulman, Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception

“How are the two main aspects of Buddhist philosophy – theory and religious transformation – connected?”
― Eviatar Shulman, Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception

“Early Buddhist philosophy concerned itself mainly with conscious experience, and its primary objects of scrutiny were mental events.”
― Eviatar Shulman, Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception

“It seems reasonable that knowledge is more analytical and lends itself more easily to conceptualization while wisdom may be more intuitive.”
― Eviatar Shulman, Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception

“Thus, liberation in both the fourth jhāna and in cessation is based on the same three fundamental features: (1) the destruction of inflows, through (2) wisdom/knowledge, in a state of (3) samādhi”
― Eviatar Shulman, Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception