The Elusive Facticity of Illusion/Pete

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In a message dated 4/3/05 5:20:43 PM, sam_t_7 writes:

 

 

> Sam:  You said, " In this case, the brain

> assigned the pain to a nonexistent leg. It projected

> the sensation to empty space. "

> S: I know you didn't imply the brain was an illusion.

> That was the basis of my question, but I thought you would have

> been more clever so I wouldn't have had to spell it out for you. 

> So are you  implying the brain isn't an illusion?  This sounds to me

> like many words chasing around after each other in a usage of 

> scientific/psychological  b.s. 

>

P: There you go! You assumed I was clever, and I disappointed you.

It happens all the time. A kind man like you, who closes with 'kind regards'

must be telling me I'm not as clever as he thought for my own good. LOL!

I'm glad you are more intelligent than I am, that should make my job

to make you understand easier. If that is what you want to do, maybe you

are only interested in propagating your beliefs.

 

If we are to understand what we are saying in this regard we must

understand the grammatical meaning of words such as illusion, dream

and real, and what we are trying to accomplish when we qualified another

word with them. If you say the brain is an illusion, what are you really

saying?

That the brain doesn't exist? That it lacks physicality? That it lack

importance?

When Maharaj or any one else says everything is a dream, what are they really

saying? Words such as dream and illusion take their meaning as opposed to

real,

to say everything is a dream robs the word of any meaning.

So we must define words such as illusion, dream, carefully. We must

understand our

intention in saying what we say. If you care to define those three words we

could

discuss them, if not let's move on.