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Many people expound Buddhism in abstruse, esoteric ways, as if the more obscure and mysterious the talk, the deeper they themselves must be.
No wonder some say China has never had philosophy—not entirely wrong. Philosophy is a cognitive framework and a way of thinking; what matters most is concepts and logic. What does "having concepts" mean?
For example, the tall-talk used to bluff people in a teahouse of course doesn't count. To speak of a thing, you must define it clearly, without ambiguity—it cannot be both Zhang San's thing and Li Si's thing depending on what you say; that isn't knowledge.
What does "having logic" mean? Mere empirical talk isn't knowledge, because knowledge must hold universally. If Brother Zhang's plaster works but Sister Li's doesn't, that's an isolated case with no universality; such a thing isn't logical and has nothing to do with knowledge. Unfortunately, most Chinese classics are empirical talk without concepts or logic—not really...
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