undefineable wrote:
I like what I interpret as your dualism (dual dependent origination), but have been in enough of these discussions to anticipate the unexpected - Are you referring to physical phenomena, or do you feel there are mental phenomena that are permanently inaccessible to mind?
I'm not fussed as to whether mind really did give birth to the universe (as in some Tibetan Buddhist interpretations), although it might go some way towards explaining the appearance of all this random 'stuff'.
I'm afraid I don't know anything about Tibetan Buddhism at all - the only Buddhisms I know about are Theravada and Zen, and even those I only have fairly cursory knowledge of. So this is really only my own opinion, so please interpret it as such.
undefineable wrote:
Is the value of a picture determined by the qualities of the paint or by the viewer's mind?
Both!
undefineable wrote:
In any case, what exactly is your vat? Is there anything on the other side of it?
The vat is all phenomena, including things like neural activity and such. The brain is your six senses. There is nothing on the other side of it, since there is no "other side" to all phenomena.