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With Grok's assistance, I developed an interesting perspective on the relationship between the Buddhist concepts of Arthakriyā (causal efficacy) and Upāya (skillful means).

tl;dr: From the perspective of Tiantai Buddhism, the two concepts are basically indistinguishable.
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Tiantai Buddhism: Contextualism, Three Truths, and Practice #1403 | Philosophy in Life by Starter AI

I have the uneasy feeling that this "podcast episode" was automatically generated by an LLM from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Tiantai Buddhism. Note how it abruptly ends after about 30 min in the middle of the discussion.
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Tired: 'Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with saying.' - Richard Rorty
Wired: 'Truth means nothing but undermining attachments.' - Brook Ziporyn
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