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"When thinking comes to an end by slipping out of its element it replaces this loss by procuring validity

for itself as techne as an instrument of education and therefore as a classroom matter and later a
cultural concern. By and by philosophy becomes a technique for explaining from highest causes. One
no longer thinks; one occupies oneself with "philosophy." In competition with one another, such
occupations publicly offer themselves as "-isms" and my to outdo one another." Letter on Humanism, p.
242 in Pathmarks.

How does Heideggerian philosophy form a dialogue with the core teachings of Theravada Buddhism,
has he in any of his writings spoken of such a dialogue explicitly?
Would like to know more on this topic, text suggestions are welcome, preferably with citations, for I am
myself, at this moment working on something in these lines.

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