[Buddha-l] there he goes again (sam harris)

[Richard Hayes]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:55, Vicente Gonzalez wrote:

> We can experience the non-existence of the -self who is experiencing
> all these things.

I would be happy to refer you to a gaggle of Buddhist epistemologists who 
would be glad to explain to you that absence can never be experienced. I 
think they are probably right. My intellect is convinced that there are 
several billion absences dancing around on my desktop, but I can't seem to 
experience any of them. 

So I am inclined to suggest that the absence of self that you speak of is 
nothing more than a construct of the mind, a tired old dogma dressed up in 
the borrowed guise of a noble truth.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico