Bouddha

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani consistently distinguishes the Buddha's teaching from institutionalised Buddhist cultures and from its Western appropriation, which he calls "bobobo" or a "Buddhist-eco" fashion12. What he takes from it is the four noble truths about impermanence, "all that is impermanent is dukkha", and a teaching centred on pity3. He stresses that nirvana is spoken of only negatively, by stripping away all attributes in apophatic fashion, and describes it as an empty unity that he distinguishes from the world45. He judges this solution negative: in his view, suppressing desire in order to suppress suffering is surgery rather than healing6. He often returns to the story of the prince raised sheltered from misery who discovers it over a wall, and compares him with Perceval and Parsifal7. He adds that Buddhism, being too abstract, failed politically in India. He also refuses to attribute the Khmer Rouge massacres to the Buddha: in his view they belong to Buddhist culture.

1. 1Hegel Plage 2/51 Feb 2016 · 35:51
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3. 3#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 41:08
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Summary produced automatically from 23 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.