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What? Me worry?
Is existence a balance of desires/forces? We have no way of knowing. It is, to us, but that could be a cognitive illusion.
Exactly..
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Is existence a balance of desires/forces? We have no way of knowing. It is, to us, but that could be a cognitive illusion.
NOT the "cessation", but the UNITING ( "male" and "female" )
Good, but not exactly. You would still have the UNITED and something else that would be the NOT UNITED. But maybe that, for us, is totally inescapable on any plane of awareness.
no, there is ONLY TWO eternal Principles.....ultimately.
"Male" ( the Father ) and "Female" ( the Mother ).
and baby ("Son" = Humanity) makes "Three"....
Not exactly what I'm talking about, but okay....
Yes, it is what you are talking about,
only you don't know it's what you are talking about ,
yet.
no, there is ONLY TWO eternal Principles.....ultimately.
"Male" ( the Father ) and "Female" ( the Mother ).
and baby ("Son" = Humanity) makes "Three"....
Unless, of course, these principles are an illusory manifestation of one eternal principle.
Of course, that's just food for thought, because this isn't a debate forum.
Unless, of course, these principles are an illusory manifestation of one eternal principle.
Of course, that's just food for thought, because this isn't a debate forum.
Indeed, and if 1+1=1.....truthfully,
there can be ONLY "One".
just more food for thought
If you wish to debate nondualism, please create a thread. This isn't the venue.
Sorry, I could have thought it was when you "quoted" me.
Good thing you didn't, though, huh?
This is a cute children’s parable I heard in a talk by Swami Sarvapriyananda on chapter 2, verse 16 on the Bhagavad Gita. He credits the parable to Alan Watts. I thought I’d share it with you.
The parable is from the nondual perspective about why people seek God. Many Vedantins relate to this as the “play of Brahman.” I’m paraphrasing here…
God alone existed for eternity, which is a very long time.
One day God was bored and lonely and wanted a playmate, so he came up with an idea. He decided to create a play and pretend to be ‘not God.’ So the play began of God and ‘not God.’ He set out pretending to be a universe with stars, planets, trees, plants, animals, and people.
Since God is God, he’s very good at what he does. So when he pretended to be ‘not God’ in the play, he was so convincing in his role of ‘not God,’ he forgot that he was God. So the play became a nightmare. So now God, playing the role of ‘not God’ and forgetting he is God and, as a result, suffering so much, finds himself in an ongoing search for God.
This is a cute children’s parable I heard in a talk by Swami Sarvapriyananda on chapter 2, verse 16 on the Bhagavad Gita. He credits the parable to Alan Watts. I thought I’d share it with you.
The parable is from the nondual perspective about why people seek God. Many Vedantins relate to this as the “play of Brahman.” I’m paraphrasing here…
God alone existed for eternity, which is a very long time.
One day God was bored and lonely and wanted a playmate, so he came up with an idea. He decided to create a play and pretend to be ‘not God.’ So the play began of God and ‘not God.’ He set out pretending to be a universe with stars, planets, trees, plants, animals, and people.
Since God is God, he’s very good at what he does. So when he pretended to be ‘not God’ in the play, he was so convincing in his role of ‘not God,’ he forgot that he was God. So the play became a nightmare. So now God, playing the role of ‘not God’ and forgetting he is God and, as a result, suffering so much, finds himself in an ongoing search for God.