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[–] portuga 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The buddha explained this 2500 years ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.

The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.

[–] portuga 2 points 2 months ago

No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking