Emptiness and Appearance

UNIVERSAL BUDDHISM

History of Western Philosophy

Anaxagoras

Early Greek Philosophy

Introduced the concept of the mind and suggested that the mind provides order to the chaos of matter by separating matter into objects.
Quotes:

“All things are in Flux”
“No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.”
“Cold things warm up, the hot cools off, wet becomes dry and dry becomes wet.”
“Man’s character is his fate (or divinity).”
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
The road up and the road down is one and the same.”

 

Influenced these:

Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Heidegger

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

c.490 – c.430