Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 In a message dated 3/8/2006 8:10:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, Nisargadatta writes: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:53:38 -0800 Pete S <pedsie5 Re: Digest Number 2493 On Mar 8, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Nisargadatta wrote: > Do you really think such a dry, analytical response is worthy of the > insightful mind you've been given? > > Phil > P: LOL, Phil! What other response do you suggest to a math topic? One full of poetry and emotion? I know in theses spiritual lists mixing emotion, fantasy, and a dash of scientific knowledge such as quantum physics, string theories, or hologram metaphors is considered wise, and very New Age, but it is not an aid to liberation. Yup, that's the point. Are you feeling any more liberated after that discussion? Hehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 On Mar 8, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Nisargadatta wrote: > Do you really think such a dry, analytical response is worthy of the > insightful mind you've been given? > > Phil > P: LOL, Phil! What other response do you suggest to a math topic? One full of poetry and emotion? I know in theses spiritual lists mixing emotion, fantasy, and a dash of scientific knowledge such as quantum physics, string theories, or hologram metaphors is considered wise, and very New Age, but it is not an aid to liberation. The mind " I " was given? Isn't the " I " a mind product? Given to whom and by who? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Nisargadatta , ADHHUB wrote: > > > In a message dated 3/8/2006 8:10:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, > Nisargadatta writes: > > Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:53:38 -0800 > Pete S <pedsie5 > Re: Digest Number 2493 > > > On Mar 8, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Nisargadatta wrote: > > > Do you really think such a dry, analytical response is worthy of the > > insightful mind you've been given? > > > > Phil > > > > P: LOL, Phil! What other response do you suggest to a math topic? > > One full of poetry and emotion? I know in theses spiritual lists > mixing emotion, fantasy, and a dash of scientific knowledge > such as quantum physics, string theories, or hologram metaphors > is considered wise, and very New Age, but it is not an aid to > liberation. > > Throughout all discussion there persists the feeling that at the root of mathematics there lay a mystery, reaching far deeper than anything attained through the senses. Sad is the estate of anyone who has not realized this profound assurance of truth in studying pure mathematics, and is at a level whereat they hold belief that mathematics is solely derived from the facts of the external world by mere abstraction. And further to this, if anyone has not a high enough degree of contact with Vedantist or Buddhist phases of oriental thought to be assured of the peculiarly decisive evidence of transendental thought, than a dry elucidation of the matter is indeed the only way available for responding to questions regarding the disciplines.On the other hand, as a factor that can act in a sort of negative sense, the various philosophies that repudiate the actuality of any deeper sense in mathematics or transendental/mystical reality can have the effect of barrenness, which should leave them far from satisfactory. From my studies of the dialectical and polemic processes of the various western schools of thought, there is found an inadequateness for supplying the completely satisfactory solution that, while affording the appropriate recognition of the needs of experience and of reason, at the same time leave unsatisfied the hunger for assurance and depth.As an aid to liberation therefore both the path of reason and the path of nirvana do comingle in an astonishingly pleasantly harmonic and poetical way. No need to make life study a drab affair!.............bn > Yup, that's the point. Are you feeling any more liberated after that > discussion? Hehe. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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