If there is "things" seemingly arising in consciousness, is it really duality if the mind doesn't label it as such? Could it just be consciousness seeing itself, like colors on a bubble are just the nature of the bubble and not separate, not two?
The mind is great at cutting things up. The bubble has an inside and an out; a top and bottom; a right and a left; and greens, blues, reds, yellows, etc, etc. But before the mind's hatchet job, what is there really? I don't know.
It simply is, that is all a realized person sees. A tree isn't big nor pretty unless you give it those elements, likewise one can give elements to things such as death and pain, none of them have an innitial element of them being bad they simply are and because of our allocated elements we suffer from them. If we label something bad then it will be bad for us when it happens, when you realize there is no death liberation and true freedom exists.
If there is "things" seemingly arising in consciousness, is it really duality if the mind doesn't label it as such? Could it just be consciousness seeing itself, like colors on a bubble are just the nature of the bubble and not separate, not two?
The mind is great at cutting things up. The bubble has an inside and an out; a top and bottom; a right and a left; and greens, blues, reds, yellows, etc, etc. But before the mind's hatchet job, what is there really? I don't know.
JamesThomas 1 year ago
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It simply is, that is all a realized person sees. A tree isn't big nor pretty unless you give it those elements, likewise one can give elements to things such as death and pain, none of them have an innitial element of them being bad they simply are and because of our allocated elements we suffer from them. If we label something bad then it will be bad for us when it happens, when you realize there is no death liberation and true freedom exists.
colloredbrothers 1 year ago
I could do without the melodramatic music. a little too much like 2001 before elvis comes out. a bit too self-aggrandizing.
zyxquark 1 year ago
very fine
thom8406 1 year ago
such a great guy
ngarnett2028 2 years ago