Continuing on my thread of no-thing...
“Develop a mind that clings to nothing.”
That sums it up for me, from the Diamond Sutra.
“Imagine having a mind like that — it doesn’t get attached, it doesn’t need things to be a certain way, it doesn’t need people to behave in particular ways. It’s a mind at home everywhere, because it doesn’t need to be anywhere in particular.
All of our difficulties would be eased.
Every difficulty is caused by this clinging: stress when you’re overwhelmed, procrastination when you don’t want to work on something difficult or do uncomfortable exercise, loneliness, shutting your heart down in an argument, overeating, bad financial habits, and much more.
Let’s look at how we’d react in one situation, if we could have a mind of no clinging.“
If you are frustrated about anything you are clinging to impermanence, birth and death.
Just notice when you are clinging and how it feels. Remember, you are choosing to be attached and feel those things, but those things do not define you unless you only cling to concepts of what you are.
You don’t need things to go a certain way. Best to let what you want go. It will come back in the best way. I know the Cosmos works this way based on experience. You don’t need anything at all, do you? Aliens, bombs, birds, portals, CIA, God. What value do these things have you don’t give them?
Simple, what you sow, you reap.
What are you before your concepts of life?
You can see it clearly if you look with no attachments.
Happens to the best of us. Almost impossible not to get lost in appearances, but it’s time to wake up fools or not
No agenda you have really matters and is just your ego justifying its existence. You are alive and were chosen to live here now. A mystery still to me. I’d look at what that means. It points to a great understanding of Love.
And that’s really everything in the beginning and end.
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CORRESPONDENCE, COHERENCE AND PRAGMATIC THEORIES OF TRUTH
We can hold that something is true if it:
- corresponds to the facts
- is part of a coherent system
- works in practice
Ok.
Which Areas of Knowledge can claim absolute certainty?
Where else in the human arena are claims of absolute certainty found?
Do various manifestations of religious faith entail certainty?
In responding to these questions a dichotomy should emerge between analytical knowledge (mostly math and deductive logic) and synthetic knowledge (just about everything else). The price paid for the certainty inherent in logic and mathematics is the disjoint between their self-contained, abstract worlds and the inherent uncertainty and messiness of the real world. On the abstract plain of logical syllogism and pure mathematics, we find certain truth that refers only to itself.
If all literature is a lie (it is fiction after all) to what extent can it convey truth?
The ultimate open question: "What is going on here?"
Let’s head back round to Arjuna, my chosen saint from literature.
Life is but a Dream.
Arjuna and Krishna
“…I wish to see Your divine cosmic form, O Supreme Being.
O Lord, if You think it is possible for me to see this, then O Lord of the yogis, show me Your imperishable Self. The Supreme Lord said: O Arjuna, behold My hundreds and thousands of multifarious divine forms of different colors and shapes. …Behold, O Arjuna, many wonders never seen before.
O Arjuna, now behold the entire creation; animate, inanimate, and whatever else you like to see; all at one place in My body.
But, you are not able to see Me with your physical eye; therefore, I give you the divine eye to see My majestic power and glory.
…having said this; Lord Krishna, the great Lord of (the mystic power of) yoga, revealed His supreme majestic form to Arjuna.
(Arjuna saw the Universal Form of the Lord) with many mouths and eyes, and many visions of marvel, with numerous divine ornaments, and holding divine weapons.
Wearing divine garlands and apparel, anointed with celestial perfumes and ointments, full of all wonders, the limitless God with faces on all sides.
If the splendor of thousands of suns were to blaze forth all at once in the sky, even that would not resemble the splendor of that exalted being.
Arjuna saw the entire universe, divided in many ways, but standing as (all in) One (and One in all) in the body of Krishna, the God of gods.
Then Arjuna, filled with wonder and his hairs standing on end, bowed his head to the Lord and prayed with folded hands.”
— Bhagavad Gita; Chapter 11: 1-14. Sir Edwin Arnold translation
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