06-13-2010, 12:00 AM
It is very liberating to experience all things as the same sameness. It appears that thought alone creates the idea of separateness of objects. Since these are just "ideas" about "objects" they can just as easily be dropped. Then what is the perceiver left with?
Freedom from being bound to the multitude of "things" that bind by thought of "things" alone.
So to act in a world of things, knowing first hand the experience of the emptiness of said things is the most crucial of all perceptions.
"Don Juan went on explaining that the moment one crosses a peculiar threshold in infinity, either deliberately or, as in my case, unwittingly, everything that happens to one from then on is no longer exclusively in one's own domain, but enters into the realm of infinity." ASOI
The problem with words is not the words...but the intended "beingness" of things. So infinity "becomes" a "thing" by the intended thought of it so and one has a very difficult time getting beyond this. Dependent origination is very liberating in this regard.
So what was "one's own domain" DJ refers to? An intended "beingness". And what is "entering into the realm of infinity"? Not intending beingness. Seeing that beingness is merely an intention.
Freedom from being bound to the multitude of "things" that bind by thought of "things" alone.
So to act in a world of things, knowing first hand the experience of the emptiness of said things is the most crucial of all perceptions.
"Don Juan went on explaining that the moment one crosses a peculiar threshold in infinity, either deliberately or, as in my case, unwittingly, everything that happens to one from then on is no longer exclusively in one's own domain, but enters into the realm of infinity." ASOI
The problem with words is not the words...but the intended "beingness" of things. So infinity "becomes" a "thing" by the intended thought of it so and one has a very difficult time getting beyond this. Dependent origination is very liberating in this regard.
So what was "one's own domain" DJ refers to? An intended "beingness". And what is "entering into the realm of infinity"? Not intending beingness. Seeing that beingness is merely an intention.