Glimpses of the real

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Hello Madathil,

thanks for your comments. If I might arrow in some of them I can bring the

epistemological spotlight to bear on them.

 

"It is always good to avoid getting entangled in epistemology once it

has helped in the initial stages of equipping us with an

intellectual, advaitic conviction that everything is just

Consciousness."

 

Not entanglement I submit but clarification and I am emboldened by the

example of Sankara amongst others. I was trying I suppose to discover why

one might well be right for the wrong reasons.

 

"Take the example: "I see a jar.". I would not see it as

Consciousness taking the shape of a jar or Consciousness being

limited by the shape of a jar because that pre-requires the existence

of a thing called jar outside Consciousnsss or before Consciousness

flows in. I would rather that the jar is verily Consciousness."

 

I wasn't saying that the shape is taken from somewhere else and melded with

consciousness. It was more that your consciousness knows itself as that,

whatever that may be. It is the music as long as the music lasts.

 

"Because I am

Consciousness, I can even do away with terms like internal and

external as well. They are no more valid because I have freed myself

from my sense of introversion and extroversion. I am just free

Consciousness. Whether I perceive or not, I remain always."

 

Absolutely. To those of equal vision everything has the same standing.

There is nowhere to go, I need not leave this place. Such things are a

hobble for the mind to thwart it in its wanderings during meditation. In

the way that a thorn may be used to extract a thorn the mind's sifting and

riddling for those of that inclination can be useful. It's not mandatory.

 

Ciao and Blessings, Michael

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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