Name: How Buddha Broke Reality 2,500 Years Ago: Nāgārjuna, Nishitani, and the Philosophy of Zeroness @opensourceworldviews
Uploaded: 2026-08-20T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: These thrree great voices of Buddhist philosophy represent over two and a half millenia of reflection on no self, emptiness (zeroness, my preferred term), and non-dualistic philosophy. The Buddha points out the fiction of the individual self, Nagarjuna, the fiction of external phenomena, and Nishitani, the fiction of egoless Extistentialism.

OpenSource Worldviews: Abraham and the Origins of Iconoclasm @opensourceworldviews

Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

The religions of Judaism, Christianiy, and Islam are not called "Abrahamic" for nothin'! He, legend has it, broke his father's idols in his idol-making shop, setting the stage for one of the weirdest religious phenomena: refusal to make an image of a god!

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How Buddha Broke Reality 2,500 Years Ago: Nāgārjuna, Nishitani, and the Philosophy of Zeroness