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RC-4
What Stephen Batchelor says about what the Buddha actually taught — whether you end up embracing it or not — is undeniably startling, beautiful and visionary. Gotama, he tells us, spoke of the middle way as an ancient path travelled upon by people in the past....On following it he came upon the ruins of a city with parks, ponds, graves, ramparts, a delightful place. He tells the king to renovate the city so it would become successful, prosperous and filled with people once again...Gotama did not say the path led to nirvana but to the restoration of a city — his teaching, the Dhamma — as a template for a civilization.”
He is now drawn to Buddhism “not because it has a more convincing explanation of the nature of reality than other religions, but that it offers a methodology which might actually work in addressing the question of suffering” Buddha's Four Noble Truths are true not because they correspond to something real somewhere, but because, when put into practice, they can enhance the quality of your life.” Using the core teachings of Gotama, he engages with the world now 'from the perspective of detachment, love and lucidity.” Batchelor began a fresh and close examination of the Pali canon, especially the Kalama Sutta', for clues to what the Buddha had actually said.
Gotama seems to have only
spoken of waking up to a contingent ground, not a withdrawal to “a
timeless mystical now but an unflinching encounter with the contingent
world as it unravels moment to moment” Batchelor, attentive as ever, is
sharply aware that his is a personal reading. “I have to be alert to the
tendency to project onto Gotama my own preferences and values,' he
notes. “Every Buddhist through history has constructed his or her own
Gotama. I cannot claim it is truer or correct than yours. All I can say
is that the material buried in the Pali Canon and elsewhere has not yet
exhausted their capacity to generate more stones about Gotama and what
he taught.”
The insights that Batchelor offers us as he travels deeper into the Pali texts ar
e brilliant, dazzling, and full of piercing clarity. I have always
admired his prose (“Verses from The Center”: living with the Devil), and
his new work abounds in rich insights and magnificent, clear writing.
The metaphors Buddha used, says Batchelor, “seem to encourage a creation
of a self than a renunciation of a self rather than present the self as
a fiction. Gotama presented it as a project to be realized — the
functional, moral self that breathes and acts in the world… This is a
useful way of looking at the self for a lay Buddhist person who works in
the world than a renunciation model.”
Elsewhere, he writes that
“Awakening is not primarily a cognitive act: it is an existential
re-adjustment...a refined engagement with a shifting, complex world...it
springs from a quiet, but curious intelligence. And it is empathetic,
keenly sensitized to the peculiar texture of one's own and other's
suffering.” The Buddha suggested that “you turn your life to that which
is very far from God: the pain and anguish of life on earth; to embrace
the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral
but sentient being.”
And this becomes the ground for unsentimental
compassion and love. As a way of life the middle path is an ongoing task
of responsiveness and risk, grounded in a groundless ground. Its twists
and turns are as turbulent and unpredictable as life itself.”
1. We can infer from Batchelors 'visionary' revelation that
(1) Buddha was more concerned with temporal matters than spiritual matters.
(2) He did not believe in nirvana.
(3) The middle path is one of abstinence.
(4) Kings must engage themselves in renovation once in a while.
2. All of the following insights are found in the Pali texts EXCEPT
(1) Awakening is to be keenly aware of the world.
(2) Gotama was unaware of the transience of life.
(3) Awakening is to be sensitive to the suffering of self and others.
(4) The Buddha said that one should focus on the suffering on earth.
3. Batchelor's reading of the 'Kalama Sutta' in the Pali canon confirms his view that
(1) Buddhist values are in discord with modern priorities.
(2) Buddhism has a more convincing explanation of the nature of reality.
(3) Buddha's Four Noble Truths are mental concepts.
(4) Gotama engages himself with the concerns of the present world.
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Direction to questions 6 to 10 : Each of the question below contains one or more blank spaces, each blank space indicating an omitted word or phrase. Beneath the sentence are four words or set of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank space that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
To strive, to seek, to find, and ............... are the heroic goals of Ulysses in Tennyson's famous poem.
1.not yielding 2.yet to yield 3.not to yield 4.yet not yield
Unable to justify the answer . Need help
Two swimmers start swimming in a swimming pool from opposite ends. they met first at a distance of 50m from east and return back, they met again for second time at 20m from west then find the length of pool. Assume their speeds are constant.
Direction:
Question:
In the following question, there are sentences or parts of sentences labeled A, B, C, D and E. Choose for your answer the fragment that carries an error. Ignore punctuation errors if any.
A. Thank you all for conducting a landmark experiment
B. sharing what really goes on
C. inside our heads when it comes
D. to balancing (and unbalancing) working,
E. raising kids, and living our lives.
P.S solution says it has to be "raise kids not raising kids" and the answer is E But my doubt is how can you ignore "balancing working" It should be "balancing work" :/
What are the different types of question that come in the va section? and what is the weightage of each?
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Question No. 35. Which of the following will logically complete the paragraph below?
Existentialism is a neo-modern, philosophical construct that a further, authentic set of categories is necessary to grasp human behavior. Approaching existentialism categorically like this may conceal its “heart” i.e. its character of an uprising antithetical to academic philosophy, its anti-system sensibility, its flight from the “iron cage” of reason.
1. Nevertheless, our quest for a new categorical framework continues apace.
2. Nevertheless, popular existentialist themes find a renewed philosophical significance in our quest for a new categorical framework.
3. Nevertheless, popular existentialist themes are a recurrent motif and find an echo in humanistic psychology, too.
4. Nevertheless, he who has a way to live can bear almost anyhow.
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RC
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
The world consists of things, which obey rules. If you keep asking 'why' questions about what happens in the universe, you ultimately reach the answer 'because of the state of the universe and the laws of nature'. This isn't an obvious way for people to think. Looking at the universe through our anthropocentric eyes, we can't help but view things in terms of causes, purposes and natural ways of being. In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle saw the world teleologically: they believed that rain falls because water wants to be lower than air, animals (and slaves) are naturally subservient to human citizens, etc. But from the start, there were sceptics. Democritus and Lucretius were early naturalists who urged us to think in terms of matter obeying rules rather than chasing final causes and serving underlying purposes. But it wasn't until our understanding of physics was advanced by thinkers such as Avicenna, Galileo and Newton that it became reasonable to conceive of the universe evolving under its own power, free of guidance and support from anything beyond itself.
Theologians sometimes invoke 'sustaining the world' as a function of God. But the world doesn't need to be sustained, it can simply be. Pierre-Simon Laplace articulated the very specific kind of rule that the world obeys: If we specify the complete state of the universe (or any isolated part of it) at some particular instant, the laws of physics tell us what its state will be at the very next moment. Applying those laws again, we can figure out what it will be a moment later. And so on, until (in principle, obviously) we can build up a complete history of the universe. This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the iron grip of an unbreakable pattern. This view of the processes at the heart of the physical world has important consequences for how we come to terms with the social world. Human beings like to insist that there are reasons why things happen. The death of a child, the crash of an airplane, or a random shooting must be explained in terms of the workings of a hidden plan.
Nature teaches us otherwise. Things happen because the laws of nature say they will – because they are the consequences of the state of the universe and the path of its evolution. Life on Earth doesn't arise in fulfilment of a grand scheme but as a by-product of the increase of entropy in an environment very far from equilibrium. Our impressive brains don't develop because life is guided toward greater levels of complexity and intelligence but from the mechanical interactions between genes, organisms and their surroundings. None of which is to say that life is devoid of purpose and meaning. Only that these are things we create, not things we discover out there in the fundamental architecture of the world. The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.
Q1.What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?
1) To communicate that the teleological and theological views of the universe are wrong
2) To explain how the universe works, and how we should see ourselves in relation to it
3) To prove that the universe obeys certain rules, which human beings should obey as well
4) To tell the history of how thinkers through the ages have viewed the workings of the universe.
Q2.The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Which of the following statements would the author agree with?
1) Scepticism was nearly unknown among the ancient Greeks.
2) Human beings should be able to feel that the universe is not indifferent to their joys and sorrows.
3) With a certain amount of effort, the theological and scientific worldviews can be reconciled.
4) Even if we knew the complete state of the universe and all the laws governing it, it would not be practically feasible to know its entire history.
Q3.The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Which of the following best describes the author's tone?
1) Laudatory 2) Sceptical 3) Didactic 4) Detached
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
We should appreciate natural language and the messy qualities that give it so much flexibility and power, and that make it so much more than a simple communication device. Its ambiguity and lack of precision allow it to serve as an instrument of thought formulation, of experimentation and discovery. We don't have to know exactly what we mean before we speak; we can figure it out as we go along. Or not. We can talk just to talk, to be social, to feel connected, to participate. At the same time natural language still works as an instrument of thought transmission, one that can be made extremely precise and reliable when we need it to be, or left loose and sloppy when we can't spare the time or effort.
When it is important that misunderstandings be avoided, we have access to something that artificial language inventors have typically disregarded or even disdained: 'mere' conventional agreement, a shared culture in which definitions have been established by habit. It is convention that allows us to approach a high level of precision in academic and scientific papers or legal documents. Of course, to benefit from the precision, you must be 'in on' the conventional agreements on which those modes of communication depend. That's why when specialists want to communicate with a general or lay audience – those who don't know the conventions – they have to rely on techniques such as slowing down, answering questions, explaining terms, illustrating with examples. Convention is a faster, more efficient instrument of meaning transmission, as long as you take the trouble to learn the conventions.
When inventors of artificial languages try to bypass convention – to make a language that is 'self-explanatory' or 'universal' – they either make a less efficient communication tool, or take away too much flexibility by over-determining meaning. When they try to take away culture, the place where linguistic conventions are made, they have to substitute something else – like thousands of grammar rules. There are types of communication, such as the 'language' of music, that may allow us to access some kind of universal meaning or emotion, but give us no way to say, 'I left my purse in the car.' There are unambiguous systems, such as computer programming languages, that allow us to instruct a machine to perform a certain task, but we must be so explicit about meanings we can normally trust to inference or common sense that it can take hours or days of programming work to achieve even the simplest results. Natural languages may be less universal than music and less precise than programming languages, but they are far more versatile, and useful in our everyday lives, than either.
Ambiguity, or fuzziness of meaning, is not a flaw of natural language but a feature that gives it flexibility and that, for whatever reason, suits our minds and the way we think. Likewise, the fact that languages depend on arbitrary convention or cultural habit is not a flaw but a feature that allows us to rein in the fuzziness by establishing agreed-upon meanings at different levels of precision. Language needs its 'flaws' in order to do the enormous range of things we use it for.
Choose a suitable title for this passage.
1) Natural vs. Artificial Language
2) Conventions in Natural Language
3) The Requisite Flaws of Natural Language
4) Ambiguity and Convention: Flaws or Features?
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. According to the passage, the inventors of artificial languages would agree with which of the following statements?
1) Culture is vital as a basis for language.
2) It is important for language not to be universally understood.
3) Conventional agreement is useful as it allows a high degree of precision in language.
4) None of the above
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Choose the combinations that correctly match the type of language with one of its features. i] The language of music – universal ii] Artificial language – thousands of grammar rules iii] Computer programming languages – based on common sense
1) [i] and [ii] 2) [i] and [iii] 3) [ii] and [iii] 4) [i], [ii] and [iii]
hi puys , any tricks to crack the fill in the blanks questions in the verbal section.Is there any list of words to learn? Please suggest
Hi Puys! What is the logic in solving the following type of questions that we come across in RC paragraphs :
"Keeping the passage in mind, which of the following questions would you be most likely to ask the author?"
Your inputs would be valuable. Thank You
Bull Mock CAT 1 : Question No. 35
DIRECTIONS : Which of the following will logically complete the paragraph below?
Q)35 Existentialism is a neo-modern, philosophical construct that a further, authentic set of categories is necessary to grasp human behavior. Approaching existentialism categorically like this may conceal its “heart” i.e. its character of an uprising antithetical to academic philosophy, its anti-system sensibility, its flight from the “iron cage” of reason.
1. Nevertheless, our quest for a new categorical framework continues apace.
2. Nevertheless, popular existentialist themes find a renewed philosophical significance in our quest for a new categorical framework.
3. Nevertheless, popular existentialist themes are a recurrent motif and find an echo in humanistic psychology, too.
4. Nevertheless, he who has a way to live can bear almost anyhow.
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That he is honest is known to us.
find the voice,subject and object of the above sentence