Guest guest Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 ----- Message d'origine ---- De : toombaru2006 <lastrain À : Nisargadatta Envoyé le : Mardi, 4 Juillet 2006, 7h47mn 45s Objet : RE : Re: illusion Nisargadatta, OConnor Patricia <gdtige wrote: > > --- toombaru2006 <lastrain@.. .> a écrit : > > > Nisargadatta, " pliantheart " > > <pliantheart@ > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > what is not illusion? > > > > > > > > Nothing. > > > > > > > > > > toombaru. > > > > ...or...all things.....? > > Patricia > illusion n 1: an erroneous mental representation [syn: semblance] 2: something many people believe that is false; " they have the illusion that I am very wealthy " [syn: fantasy, phantasy, fancy] 3: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas [syn: delusion, head game] 4: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers [syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, deception] An illusion has no substance. A rope seen as a snake never was a snake. To refer to some-thing an an illusion is saying that it is not anything but a misunderstanding. One is saying that it is something but that something is a nothing. Conceptual thought creates a convaluted knot which it then attempts to untie with another thread of concepts. toombaru Amen and F.... the dictionary. Illusion is every-thing, it is the horizontal, it is the list and you and I, and love and garbage can, grilled sardines and 4th of july... Nothing is the vertical, ever present and yet unnoticable. Patricia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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