Reply To: Determinism

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Dawson
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Nope. Sorry but I disagree. You can’t rationalise your way to Nibbana in that way. It will more than likely just result in cognitive dissonance.

A mistake that a lot of people make is to try to perceive reality according to what they believe is true.

If someone were to tell themselves, “there is no doer, it’s all just causes and effects”, that will contradict how things appear within their immediate experience.

What is necessary is to instead investigate your experience and see whether any given premise passes the sniff test. If it does, then you investigate further. It’s an iterative process.