CONSTRUCTIVE POST-MODERNISM IN THE DIAMOND-CUTTER SUTRA
(Kalup[2], pp. 154ff.)
Dialectical Triads of Thesis-->Antithesis-->Synthesis, roughly following Hegel-Fichte in Western philosophy. The triad can also be seen as Substance Philosophy-->No Substance-->Process Philosophy; or Absolutist-->Deconstruction-->Reconstruction.
ON VIRTUE
Virtue as perfect substance--->No Virtue--> Virtue as a human disposition, temporally
(Plato: a perfect form) constituted and fully embodied
ON THE ARHAT
Arhat as perfect being--->No Arhat--> "a dweller in peace, a dweller in peace"--an arhat free from craving and living in the world with ordinary desires.
ON KARMA
Heap of Merit-->no Heap of Merit-->reconstructed as"heap of merit, heap of merit"
"Scare" quotes indicate karma as empty of substance, but not totally negated (as in deconstructive postmodernism). Karma not as a substance, but as an element of interdependent coorigination.
Karma as substance --->no Karma as substance --->"Karma" as process or relation. Karma as psychological rather than Jain's physical view.
(Jainism) (skeptic/materialist) (Buddhism)
ON THE SELF
Self -----> no-self -----> "self" as a relational, nonsubstantial process self
(Atman) (anatma) Bundle Theory of the Self
ON REALITY
Being----->non-being----->becoming, "process," or "history" in Hegels first dialectical triad
(Sat) (asat)