09-07-2010, 12:00 AM
lex icon wrote: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?
Yes it can be seen so
or
Is it because all things are empty? If empty, then in what way are they empty?
As impermanent and by things comes from emptiness
or
Is it because multiplicity is illusory? If phenomenal reality is not many but “one” then in what way is this so?
The multitude all springs from One.
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.
Understanding is important but don't get attached to it.. The essence is to experience Oneness.
Yes it can be seen so
or
Is it because all things are empty? If empty, then in what way are they empty?
As impermanent and by things comes from emptiness
or
Is it because multiplicity is illusory? If phenomenal reality is not many but “one” then in what way is this so?
The multitude all springs from One.
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.
Understanding is important but don't get attached to it.. The essence is to experience Oneness.