09-19-2010, 12:00 AM
Hey SHM, pleasure to read such posts from you as well : )
About that movie... when I saw it I was noticing how its implied to the audience that there is even a waking realm in the first place...its just something taken for granted. That a waking is intrinsically different than the dreaming layers. Then a tension in the movie builds around this need to find/get back to the "real" realm.
I recommend reading Nargarjuna's Middle Way (partially posted here). Its not the most enticing work at first sight, but if each line is given consideration, if logic is allowed to follow his assertions, it causes an experiential shift. This whole idea that we cannot transform via words is not true. This whole business that intellectualiztion is a barrier is not true. I know this first hand. Nagarjuna may seem a kin to college text philosophy for example, but its really not, its something quite different.
Yes, I like talking with Lex for many reasons...among them...he knows his material, can articulate it to point out what is relevant from it, and always the focus will be on the teachings. I think I have thanked him about 3 times for this thread. Because, he brought to my attention something I'm interested in exploring, and, I think, is truly relevant to all of our perceptual experiences, and by this I refer to Di Caprio's character who is an encapsulation/representation of the viewer, us, and the dilemma we all face. He (Di Caprio) knows the inception, knows how to do it, does do it, but it does not free him of his concerns which, are in fact, more of this very inception. So the hidden core remains hidden for him.
About that movie... when I saw it I was noticing how its implied to the audience that there is even a waking realm in the first place...its just something taken for granted. That a waking is intrinsically different than the dreaming layers. Then a tension in the movie builds around this need to find/get back to the "real" realm.
I recommend reading Nargarjuna's Middle Way (partially posted here). Its not the most enticing work at first sight, but if each line is given consideration, if logic is allowed to follow his assertions, it causes an experiential shift. This whole idea that we cannot transform via words is not true. This whole business that intellectualiztion is a barrier is not true. I know this first hand. Nagarjuna may seem a kin to college text philosophy for example, but its really not, its something quite different.
Yes, I like talking with Lex for many reasons...among them...he knows his material, can articulate it to point out what is relevant from it, and always the focus will be on the teachings. I think I have thanked him about 3 times for this thread. Because, he brought to my attention something I'm interested in exploring, and, I think, is truly relevant to all of our perceptual experiences, and by this I refer to Di Caprio's character who is an encapsulation/representation of the viewer, us, and the dilemma we all face. He (Di Caprio) knows the inception, knows how to do it, does do it, but it does not free him of his concerns which, are in fact, more of this very inception. So the hidden core remains hidden for him.