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Posted by josef on 4/11/2009, 12:05 pm, in reply to "Re: The Mystery of mysteries cannot be known, but it can be experienced."
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: josef,
:
: You may very well be right. But I may not be
: wrong as well. Let me explain.
:
: In my opinion there is one fundamental
: mistake where the nature of reality is
: concerned. That is all other mistakes take
: root here. That being that all is a
: numerical one. Not a synergetic one, not a
: unitive one, but a numerical one.
:
: In my opinion, monism, is a fatal error
: where the nature of existence is concerned.
: For me purist advaita, monisms of every ilk,
: are a house of mirrors. A myth that distorts
: reality as it is.
:
: Monism leads to all sorts of solipsistic
: perspectives. If all is numerically one then
: I am God. If all is n one then nothing
: matters. If all is n one then my god is the
: God. If all is n one then nothing is real.
: It is all just a play on words.
:
: Such thinking, such solipsistic thinking, is
: the cause of just about every example of
: man's inhumanity to man that I can think of.
: Hooray for me, to bad for you. Thinking all
: is n one is the ultimate ego trip.
:
: So I draw a distinction between all is
: numerically one and all is a unitive one.
: One is an illusion and the other is more in
: line with the nature of existence. I do not
: believe we cannot know anything. It is just
: that I know enough to know that the concepts
: that we live by, and that is what humans do,
: matter.
:
: No man is an island, he is a peninsula. What
: you think matters to me, and what I think
: matters to you. Whether either of us realize
: it or not. We are interconnected at every
: level and at every point. A unitive one.
:
: I hope this brief explanation helps you to
: understand where I am coming from regarding
: what I feel is the Number One Myth. If you
: don't agree or agree at least you now have a
: better idea of where I am coming from on
: this point.
:
: Butcho
Butcho, thanks for taking the time to explain what you meant. It deserves more than a quicky response, no time for that now, so Monday I'll have time to give a more considered one. Also would like to read yours over a few times, before responding. I got lost somewhere.
josef
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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