Metabletics In the Light of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
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Metabletics and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism are quasi-phenomenological traditions which examine psychological life in diametrically opposed ways. Metabletics examines historical-cultural phenomena, placing its focus on the world, while Buddhism examines the mind and its workings, placing its focus inward. Although both traditions conclude that there is ultimately no separation between inner and outer, their different motivations and methods reveal varying understandings of the nature of reality. This article begins with an examination of how each approach would account for a handprint embedded in stone in a cave wall in Nepal; this image provides an avenue for articulating the underlying philosophies of each. Then methodological differences are explored, whereupon I argue that Indo-Tibetan Buddhism reveals an ontological self within which the psychological self of metabletics can be situated. Conversely, this psychological self provides a realm of imagination for which Buddhism cannot account. Together, metabletics and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism provide complementary emphases on the immanent and transcendent aspects of reality and the psychological and spiritual aspects of humanity.
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