A

Attachment Paradox

noun • medium lacunity

It is sometimes easier to let go of attachments after having achieved them.

Example

One needs a proxy of their ultimate desire to let go. For some, that is toes in the pool, for others jumping off the diving board.

It is sometimes easier to let go of attachments after having achieved them.

Attentionism^⁠6

Attentionism

noun • medium lacunity

Philosophy centered on the training of attention as the primary means of improving well-being.

B

Buddha’s Bargain^⁠7

Buddha’s Bargain

noun • high lacunity

Inverse of Faustian Bargain. Whether to trade the world for your soul.

Example

To trade roller-coasters for a walk in the rain is Buddha's Bargain.

Inverse of Faustian Bargain. Whether to trade the world for your soul.

E

Enlightenment Paradox^⁠5

Enlightenment Paradox

noun • medium lacunity

Enlightenment is evolutionary unselecting. The very nature of the insights dissolves wanting to be known or to persuade.

Example

You’ll never see an Instagram post announcing Nirvana.

Enlightenment is evolutionary unselecting. The very nature of the insights dissolves wanting to be known or to persuade.

Experiential Threshold^⁠4

Experiential Threshold

noun • medium lacunity

The point at which inquiry shifts from conceptual reasoning about experience to direct, non-conceptual awareness itself.

Extinguishment^⁠5

Extinguishment

noun • medium lacunity

The end of a civilization due to solving motivational drives.

Example

Asimov’s dreams will never be realized: we will not be an interplanetary species or harvest all the sun’s energy. Long before these, we will have solved our motivations.

The end of a civilization due to solving motivational drives.

L

Lacunity^⁠5

Lacunity

noun • medium lacunity

The degree to which a neologism fills a lacuna (lexical gap).

A higher lucanity indicates a larger gap being filled.

Example

The lacunity of 'lucunity' is low, as there are few situations where one would need to describe the degree to which a neologism fills a lexical gap.

The degree to which a neologism fills a lacuna (lexical gap).

P

Possession Paradox^⁠8

Possession Paradox

noun • high lacunity

When we lack something, we strive anxiously to obtain it; when we have it, we fear losing it.

Postquietism^⁠6

Postquietism

noun • medium lacunity

The state after philosophical questioning.

Postquietism can take the form of withdrawal (e.g. alcohol, sleep), distraction (e.g. hobbies, career),engagement (e.g reading), or simple acceptance. It is primarily about the relationship to uncertainty, rather than questioning itself, which is why engagement is a possible form of postquietism.

Example

Postquietism can be when has either found answers to their questions, stopped asking, or have accepted uncertainty.

The state after philosophical questioning.

Prequietism^⁠6

Prequietism

noun • medium lacunity

The state before philosophical questioning.

Example

Children are prequietists, as they haven't deeply questioned their existence.

The state before philosophical questioning.

S

Siddhartha’s Syllogism^⁠7

Siddhartha’s Syllogism

noun • high lacunity

A logical argument that, because emotional states depend on attention and attention is trainable, meditation is a rational path to well-being.

Dictionary

A

Attachment Paradox

noun • medium lacunity

Example

Attentionism

noun • medium lacunity

B

Buddha’s Bargain

noun • high lacunity

Example

E

Enlightenment Paradox

noun • medium lacunity

Example

Experiential Threshold

noun • medium lacunity

Extinguishment

noun • medium lacunity

Example

L

Lacunity

noun • medium lacunity

Example

P

Possession Paradox

noun • high lacunity

Postquietism

noun • medium lacunity

Example

Prequietism

noun • medium lacunity

Example

S

Siddhartha’s Syllogism

noun • high lacunity