Comments on: Purification Exercises https://www.adriankezele.com/oldweb/en/purification-exercises/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:53:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.19 By: Adrian https://www.adriankezele.com/oldweb/en/purification-exercises/#comment-6846 Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:53:49 +0000 https://www.adriankezele.com/vjezbe-prociscavanja/#comment-6846 In reply to Zorka.

The deconstruction graph is not the same as finding the lakshana (that was not the task). In the case of a car, lakshana would be a rather complex set of descriptive words, but would not require ideas like energy, or space. On the other hand, in order to understand the idea of a car (and possible lakshana of that idea), you need to understand space, movement, etc. That gives you an insight into the mechanics of how the mind works. Lakshana is another story.

Of course, viveka is not interested in lakshana of a car. 🙂 Lakshanas of basic ideas, like time, truth or reality are much more interesting.

]]> By: Zorka https://www.adriankezele.com/oldweb/en/purification-exercises/#comment-6845 Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:26:07 +0000 https://www.adriankezele.com/vjezbe-prociscavanja/#comment-6845 Dear Adrian, in Chapter 17 you write: „First, notice that you can draw a similar deconstruction graph for any „material thing“, and you’ll end up with almost identical derivate ideas (maybe one or two would be different) and the same original ideas.“
I understood (btw very logical) fact from my experiments with deconstruction graphs. However, I am puzzled. Is the task to find lakshana (discerning quality of the object) for a car or a universally valid fundament of existence (a certain original idea)?
In answers for comments to Chapter 15 you write that the graph serves the deconstruction of the concept.
Questions „What is a car?“ and „How do we know that a car is a car?“ only take me back to constructs I need to understand the idea of a car. But how do I find the lakshana of an idea of a car? Thank you very much.

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