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Delusion or Compassion?World-Making in
Buddhist Philosophy, Practice & Art
John DunneEmory University, Department of Religion
Emory Collaborative for Contemplative StudiesCenter for Mind, Brain and Culture
Mind and Life Institute (Amherst, MA)Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (UW-
Madison)
Model of Consciousness
Consciousness flows through time as discrete moments…
Each moment causally produces the next moment…
Model of Consciousness
Since each moment produces the next, it conditions it as well…
Conditioning can come in the form of karmic intentions, beliefs, emotions, expectations and so on….
Conditioning Conditioning Conditioning Conditioning Conditioning ConditioningConditioning
IGNORANCE is the conditioning that distorts experience…
Distorted perception arises,
And that distorted intention creates a distorted world…
IGNORANCE IGNORANCE IGNORANCE IGNORANCE IGNORANCEIGNORANCEIGNORANCE
Perception
followed by distorted interpretation….
Interpretation Intention
“Karma”
སྣང་བ་སེ� མསེ་སུ་ང ་འཕྲོ ད་