06-21-2010, 12:00 AM
Yeah, there's a point, and I've experienced it first hand. It's hard to put it into words though. Very liberating.
"It seems to me being is change and if so, something is happening. Were nothing happening, all would be in stasis. That does not appear to be a state the universe tolerates at the moment. But then there is the notion of entropy: "The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity."~Gonzo
So if you feel something is happening, you feel an essence...a "something" that happens. And its not correct to seek the opposite of this condition and say well,then, its not happening, its not real, because that too is an essence "the unreal-real". Maybe the difficulty lies in believing there is anything else beyond these two extremes. Within the two extremes, kind of a "so what, who cares then" perception can set in because its perceived its either one thing, or else it must be the other. So the mundane stays the mundane. And something is always happening, or else its just an illusion. And neither of these is what I'm talking about.
And we can party or not party...its doesn't matter. Its not about terminating relative truth. Or absolute truth. Or stopping our experience of being, at least imo its not. We go on being and such, but within this we see its not this or that...
So, yes, hard to explain or convince anyone there is something to all this. I'm not going to even try. Just hopefully propose some provocative questions. Lex is really the one who it would be good to hear more from, he's worked with this much longer, has a good grasp of it. I have the experience of liberation from it, so its not that I'm just taking his word for it, but he does have a firmer grasp on the material that presents all this.
Anyway, whoever is interested hearing more that's great, whoever is not, that's fine too. Because its really something one expereinces personally, so its not like people need to be recruited to a way of thinking. Its a personal choice and one gets from it what one puts into it.
"It seems to me being is change and if so, something is happening. Were nothing happening, all would be in stasis. That does not appear to be a state the universe tolerates at the moment. But then there is the notion of entropy: "The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity."~Gonzo
So if you feel something is happening, you feel an essence...a "something" that happens. And its not correct to seek the opposite of this condition and say well,then, its not happening, its not real, because that too is an essence "the unreal-real". Maybe the difficulty lies in believing there is anything else beyond these two extremes. Within the two extremes, kind of a "so what, who cares then" perception can set in because its perceived its either one thing, or else it must be the other. So the mundane stays the mundane. And something is always happening, or else its just an illusion. And neither of these is what I'm talking about.
And we can party or not party...its doesn't matter. Its not about terminating relative truth. Or absolute truth. Or stopping our experience of being, at least imo its not. We go on being and such, but within this we see its not this or that...
So, yes, hard to explain or convince anyone there is something to all this. I'm not going to even try. Just hopefully propose some provocative questions. Lex is really the one who it would be good to hear more from, he's worked with this much longer, has a good grasp of it. I have the experience of liberation from it, so its not that I'm just taking his word for it, but he does have a firmer grasp on the material that presents all this.
Anyway, whoever is interested hearing more that's great, whoever is not, that's fine too. Because its really something one expereinces personally, so its not like people need to be recruited to a way of thinking. Its a personal choice and one gets from it what one puts into it.