Episode 88, Buddhism (Part V - Further Analysis and Discussion)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Introduction
Jack was walking down a street. It was a day like any other. As ever, his mind was a flurry of thoughts, worries, and anxieties, stimulated by coffee and the bright light of his phone. In a bid to relieve his stress, he put his phone in his pocket, and tried to notice the details he would usually ignore.
As he walked past the pharmacy, he saw a sick man coughing and spluttering; he was throwing medication back to stop his disease from decaying his body. Jack kept walking and came across an old woman waiting at a bus stop. She was fragile, crooked, and anxious; clearly age had taken much from her. Crossing the road away from the bus stop, he waited for the traffic to pass. Driving slowly past him was a hearse: a coffin on full display, surrounded by flowers, proceeded by a stream of weeping mourners.
Jack fell to his knees, overwhelmed with despair, "we all get sick, we all age, and we all die. We cannot escape this fate!" His head against the pavement, he didn't move for almost an hour. When he got up, he was approached by a homeless man, to whom he said, "sorry, I don't have any change." The man replied, "It is you who needs a little change, young monk. I know why you fall to your knees in despair: the inescapable suffering of life weighs on us all. Let me tell you of someone who was once like you, who tried to remove suffering from our minds… let me tell you the story of Siddhartha Gotama, The Buddha."
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| 0:00.0 | Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Saicast! |
| 0:08.0 | Part 5, further analysis and discussion. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to our final instalment of our Buddhism series. |
| 0:29.1 | It's been a real in-depth look at some of the central ideas within Buddhism, the history of buddhism, the metaphysics of Buddhism, what Buddhists should do in their |
| 0:37.9 | day-to-day lives. This section, as you know, if you've listened to the show before, is where |
| 0:41.7 | we can give some of the philosophical criticisms, perhaps you've anticipated yourself throughout |
| 0:45.8 | the series. So the reason we hold off is to give every view, their fair treatment, and then afterwards, |
| 0:51.9 | only when we've got a good version of the system |
| 0:54.7 | where we begin to criticize the idea. |
| 0:56.9 | So this is that section. |
| 0:58.5 | Off the back of last week's installment, we're talking about meditation. |
| 1:01.7 | We're talking about the moral principles. |
| 1:03.5 | So I think we should perhaps carry over, pass the baton from, there's got to be a better |
| 1:08.6 | Buddhist metaphor here, that the flicker of the flame passes on from last section to this one let's carry on with some meditation |
| 1:15.7 | Andrew you've been practicing some meditation a last few weeks do you does it ring true what the bud is telling you about how it can make you more mindful how it can give you great insight into the world's truths? |
| 1:29.5 | No, not entirely. |
| 1:31.4 | It's a bit of a leading question. |
| 1:32.9 | And I've done this through criticisms. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:40.9 | Well, first of all, I'll start off with at least reasons for why I wanted to try it. |
| 1:46.5 | And as you mentioned before, it kind of links back to when we first started preparing for the Robert Wright interview. I had a passing knowledge of Buddhism, but I never |
| 1:51.4 | had to study it in depth. So my my kind of understanding of meditation was what you might see |
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