Digest Number 2417/Pete

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Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie4 wrote:

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> On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Nisargadatta wrote:

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> >>> 3)

> >>> There is only the flow of appearances or the flow of contents

of

> >>> consciousness and that flow is non-dualistic.

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> > Doesn't this flow imply a change of one appearance into another?

> > Surely this cannot be non-dualistic?

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> P: Hi Meth,

> Obviously, I misspoke when I said it couldn't be said any clearly,

> since you misunderstood. Well, let my try with a metaphor, although

> I know a meta4 could be misleading. When you watch a movie, your

> eyes actually see only still pictures, but your brain retains

the image

> of the previous picture for a few fractions of a seconds. That

memory

> merges with the impression of the next and the next and creates the

> illusion of movement. In the same way, your brain stitches separate

> appearances together to create the illusion of continuity. But each

> mental event is experienced one at a time.

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Hi Pete

 

Shall we see if it is rational to have an " next " or a " brain " in non-

dualism. Surely all such thinking is misleading?

 

 

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> >>> 4)

> >>> Dualism exists only throught memory. You feel cold and you

> > rememeber

> >>> warmth.

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> > Where does memory come from? Was it created before dualism?

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> P: Yes, memory was created way before. Memory is a faculty of the

> brain, dualism is just a concept.

> A dog has memory, but knows nothing about dualism because

> a dog doesn't have concepts in his arsenal of weapons to survive.

> Concepts are survival weapons humans have invented, just as they

> invented arrows, or houses. We use concepts to survive, not only

> physically, but mentally, and spiritual as well.

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Have you thought this through? Surely if you have a non-dualistic

whole and then you create memory you have two.

 

 

> >> P: Wow! Can't be said clearer than that!

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