title: Evil and/or/as the Good: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought
author:  Brook Ziporyn 
description: "Other than the devil, there is no Buddha; other than the Buddha, there is no devil". The Chinese Tiantai Buddhist monk Siming Zhili (960-1028) uttered this remark as part of his justification for his planned self-immolation. As an exposition of the intent, implications, and resonances of this one sentence, this book expands and unravels the context in which the seeming paradox of the ultimate identity of good and evil -- or to use another of Zhili's memorable phrases, "the ultimacy of the dung beetle" -- is to be understood. This value paradox in Tiantai Buddhist thought is centered on the notion of the inherent evil in the Buddha nature, a doctrine that sets this school apart from all other forms of Buddhism. In analyzing this idea -- and the related concepts of holism, intersubjectivity, and value theory that are its foundation -- Brook Ziporyn provides an overview of the development of Tiantai thought from the fifth through the eleventh centuries in China and contributes to our understanding of Chinese intellectual culture and Chinese Buddhism, as well as to basic ontological, epistemological, and axiological concepts. In the conclusion, he looks at these ideas from a wider perspective by teasing out the philosophical and moral implications of Zhili's ideas.
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  Falsity and Evil, Pt.2 – Addendum on Neutrality
   2014/10/14  Kris Nelson  Know Thyself, Moral Law, Society
  Content:
  Neutral Issues Explained in More Detail
  The +0.1 Potential
  Neutral in the System
  Importance of Sharing Occulted Knowledge
  All In the Same Boat – Earth
   
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  Neutral Issues Explained in More Detail
  *Continued from the main Falsity and Evil article. More explanations for those interested.
  You can only be in neutral if you isolate yourself from the existing condition and not input more of the same that exists.
  Stopping to do evil, taking that input out, is wei wu wei, action through non-action. We then can input positive good that
  will take effect, rather than be muddled with the continued input of evil we have habitually 