Libra
April 29, 2026
James Macnee
Awareness unframed is a form of freedom distinct from skill mastery, according to Longchenpa's Tibetan Buddhist philosophy of breakthrough practice (khregs chod). The practice dissolves the subject–object duality that perpetuates saṃsāra, allowing natural spontaneity and creativity to emerge. Longchenpa's text systematically disrupts three forms of directedness—agential intention, intentionality toward objects, and referential language—through poetic devices. The term 'dran pa' (mindfulness) is reconceived as a mode of attention that picks out objects and must be set aside in breakthrough, not replaced by refined attentional skill. Success is radical spontaneity and 'crazy wisdom' embodied as resonant care (thugs rje), with implications for norms of attention and epistemology.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 7, 2026
Qin Han
Six intellectual traditions—Buddhism, philosophical Daoism (Zhuangzi), Christianity (Pauline epistles and mystical tradition), Freud's structural psychoanalysis, Jung's analytical psychology, and SAE psychoanalysis—independently converge on a structurally similar judgment: the self (the reflexive, boundary-maintaining layer that discriminates 'mine' from 'not mine') is not the highest or final layer of personhood. This paper presents the convergence, analyzes its 3×3 network structure (three religious traditions × three psychoanalytic frameworks), and argues that the convergence constitutes evidence worth taking seriously, while distinguishing this claim from perennial philosophy, ontological identity claims, and reductionism. SAE psychoanalysis provides a coordinate system explaining why this convergence occurs: the self-as-filter has a logically necessary jurisdictional limit, and any sufficiently deep inquiry into personhood will encounter it.