Buddhism Is Also Wrong About This
A fundamental assumption that colors everything
A reader kindly pointed out to me that I need to amend two earlier articles with some background information. Good point, which I much appreciate, so I will. The two articles in question are ones in which I discussed the Buddhist doctrines that our self and our thoughts are illusions.
I also wrote a compendium of articles on the importance of acknowledging the reality that we have a self.
But these mistaken doctrines about the self and thought and the corresponding desire to negate the unnegatable are actually symptoms of a fundamental assumption of Buddhism. The mistaken reasoning is an example of how an argument can be valid — the…