06-20-2010, 12:00 AM
"Instead the Middle Way offers us a way to avoid the four assertions and the entanglements they lead to. The four assertions when applied to any THING state;
It is
It is not
It is neither
It is both
These assertions only lead a person into indefensible positions of fantasy and imagination."~Lex
It is a dual exisitence
It is not a dual existence
It is neither a dual or non-dual existence
It is both a dual and non-dual existence
Perhaps the hardest of these is "It is neither a dual or non-dual
existence", which is nihilism I believe. Many people stop at nihilism and feel content in what they think they have verified...non-existence. Hence, "this is not real, this is a dream", but why is it a dream? How is the non-existent experienced if it is non-exisitent?
It is
It is not
It is neither
It is both
These assertions only lead a person into indefensible positions of fantasy and imagination."~Lex
It is a dual exisitence
It is not a dual existence
It is neither a dual or non-dual existence
It is both a dual and non-dual existence
Perhaps the hardest of these is "It is neither a dual or non-dual
existence", which is nihilism I believe. Many people stop at nihilism and feel content in what they think they have verified...non-existence. Hence, "this is not real, this is a dream", but why is it a dream? How is the non-existent experienced if it is non-exisitent?