Following on from this and this thread, I'm going to expound my understanding / of the relevance of the Buddhadharma. To avoid the extremes of thought, right up to any kind of differentiating consciousness if you can, is to live meaningfully. Because the mind cannot find meaning in fragments. > Consciousness has two aspects. The first is known as discriminating > consciousness. This is taken to be the activities of cognition, of > apprehension, and of discrimination (commonly, what we take to be > memory, judgment, and reasoning.) And to life valuably we do so without affirming either. Because there is no reality to the negative value of either extreme. > The object of inference is not ultimately real, it is a conceptual > construction. And part of what the mind puts into it when the mind > constructs the object of inference And so to live the middle way without affirming either extreme, is an active / creative life. Because our world really does consist of both these facts, of no self and impermanence. So my actual question is just: does this put me in any particular group of Buddhist thinkers?