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Catini's avatar

But we are all impermanent bundles of causes and conditioning so there is no "true" disposition, no "other" to hate or demonize, just causes and conditions to meet as they are.

This is a life's lesson that i constantly try to remember by correcting the statement that "so and so is an idiot" to "so and so is acting idiotically." 😁

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Robert Wright's avatar

Yes, there's definitely a sense in which Ross, with his emphasis on attribution error, is being very Buddhist. Both he and Buddhism are anti-essentialism. In fact, in my Buddhism book I connect attribution error to the Buddhist concept of 'emptiness.'

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Catini's avatar

Ok, sorry i would like to refer to your buddhism book so i would appear more informed but i gave it away in a fit of nonattachment 🤗

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Robert Wright's avatar

There's such a thing as too much non-attachment! :}

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