The Lost Realist


Philosophical Nugget
August 20, 2009, 6:33 pm
Filed under: Nuggets, Philosophy, introspection

…Who arrange colours to produce a picture, I teach.

The picture is not in the colours, nor in the canvas, nor in the plate…

(/ed: …but in the Mind. The same way, reality provides just the bare substrate as-is and
the Mind paints an objective world laden with meaning through cognition and the
entailed directed action.)

– Mahayana Buddhism, Lankavatara Sutra, Chapter 2, IX:118


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