Chaos and Knowledge

[thelastindividual]

This is something I wrote as an objection to the Buddhist 'Middle way'. Since Buddhism is an atheistic philosophy I thought this belonged more to the philosophy board than the atheism board :

- There are those who are so at peace with themselves and the world they will sit beneath a tree for a thousand years and not once wonder what the tree is and where it came from? Where also is it going? What gave to it the name of tree? What is beyond the oak that covers the insides? Why are it's insides structured in such a fashion? How did this tree come to exist like this in the first place? A man at peace will never ask for he is content with knowing little. Chaos is the ultimate harbringer of knowledge. Chaos is the thing that destroys the percieved order of man and the recieved wisdom of his world. A man with chaos in his mind will never be satisfied until he has split the tree into a thousand pieces and examined every last inch to try and bring order. A buddhist strives for inner peace by destroying the inner chaos instead of alleviating the real problem of the unsatisfactory nature of the current order. The reason I am unsatisfied with the buddhist 'middle way' is it fails in my mind to resolve anything to a satisfactory degree

[jack]

Only Zen Buddhism is really atheistic, and that's mostly found in the West.

[Guest]

"A buddhist strives for inner peace by destroying the inner chaos instead of alleviating the real problem of the unsatisfactory nature of the current order. The reason I am unsatisfied with the buddhist 'middle way' is it fails in my mind to resolve anything to a satisfactory degree"

This is not true at all, Buddhism claims that inner peace is possible by getting rid of fundamental ignorance of reality. Nothing to do with inner chaos...the "inner chaos" stops when one sharpens one focus...which is really early on in the Buddhist 'path'..you dont seem to know much at all about Buddhism.