08-27-2010, 12:00 AM
MS, what I am trying to get at here is this. The ‘oneness’ you speak of when you say ‘all things are one” can be interpreted a few different ways. EG. Are all things one because they share the same spiritual base in the sense that there is a spiritual essence from which their physical existence springs, in the sense that the existence of each individual living being is connected by this spiritual essence?
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Is it because all things are empty? If empty, then in what way are they empty?
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Is it because multiplicity is illusory? If phenomenal reality is not many but “one” then in what way is this so?
Now I understand that experience is one thing but we can try and make sense of our experiences for the sake of understanding. I think this is the point of declaring that ‘all is one’ in the first place.
or
Is it because all things are empty? If empty, then in what way are they empty?
or
Is it because multiplicity is illusory? If phenomenal reality is not many but “one” then in what way is this so?
Now I understand that experience is one thing but we can try and make sense of our experiences for the sake of understanding. I think this is the point of declaring that ‘all is one’ in the first place.