Buddhist identity is circular and same-yet-other, resisting linear generalization.

Evidence

BUDDHA.- Through a primordial movement of circularity the individual strives in search of perfection toward a dissolution within the AlI. His successive lives are the cycles (“the histories”) ofthis perfection and do not constitute a Iinearity. At the end of a process he is reincarnated: he is the same and yet other. … It is scarce1y important that Christian generalization originated in a choice, whereas Darwinian generalization was the result of an objective observation. Both are linked to an identic al spirit of universality-in opposition to community’s exclusivity or to Nature’s heterogeneity; both reach fulfillment at the end of a line; both already are and further become the propagation of a Knowledge. The Buddhist gyre never proceeds from generalization: it is not linear and does not depart from individualization. The approach to Nirvana is impossible ta generalize through knowledge but is particularized through knowledges. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 306

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘same and yet other’ circular model is a candidate mechanism for the reader’s question: an identity held without residence — recalling the creolization/rhizome thread in Glissant, and possibly Foucault’s anti-linear counter-history in Society Must Be Defended. — connects to: Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other; Non-identical thinking requires resisting the identity principle that flattens qualitative difference. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1246; Identity is defined oppositionally, against those one is not. (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #expands (0.85)
• Identity is defined oppositionally, against those one is not. #expands (0.80)
• Non-identical thinking requires resisting the identity principle that flattens qualitative difference. #corroborates (0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1246
• Modern identity is constituted through the exclusion of its own opposite #expands (0.75)
• Each religious community experience is unique and resists generalization #exemplifies (0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 558
• Group identities are formed negatively as ‘not-barbarian’ rather than positively. #expands (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 154
• Identity is constituted through splitting and an interiorized Other, not pure difference. #corroborates (0.72)
• Buddhist tradition has a consistent anti-coercive pedagogical ethic #qualifies (0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 4006