Guest guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Nisargadatta , " fmraerdy " <mybox234@b...> wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033> > wrote: > > > > Nisargadatta , " toombaru2004 " <cptc@w...> > > wrote: > > > > > > There is only the dream....dreaming. > > > toombaru > > > > No, there isn't. > > What makes you think there's a dream? > > -- Dan > > He hasn't quite grasped the " difficult " concept - metaphor. Indeed. It's a teaching metaphor, not an accurate description of " what is " -- of which there aren't any. > He read somewhere (probably Wei Wu Wei) that " there is only the dream > dreaming " (WWW probably didn't use the silly ellipses for effect as T > can't seem to help from using, ad infinitum), but failed to discover > (or WWW didn't know it either), that it's just a metaphor, the very > idea is just a metaphor, not to be taken concretely as DOGMA. Agreed. Teaching metaphors have their uses in certain conversations, then are dropped. Repeated over and over, used out of context, they become a kind of anchoring device for a believing mind (and that's all a mind is, the repetition of attempts to hold and fix a system of symbols, images, and ideas. The metaphor may be used as if a substitute for knowing directly, but direct knowing involves no metaphor, no symbol, no mediation. -- D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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