is and isn't / Bill

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , pliantheart <pliantheart wrote:

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>

>

> --- dan330033 <dan330033 wrote:

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> > Nisargadatta , OConnor Patricia <gdtige@> wrote:

> > >

> > > There is a path!

> > > There is a heart.

> > > There is a fire being kindled!

> > >

> > >

> > > And for those you say there is nothing and nothing to

> > > do etc...

> > >

> > > Well, then:

> > > there isn`t a path,

> > > there isn`t a heart,

> > > and no fire to be kindled.

> > >

> > > AAhhh!!

> > > that simple?

> > >

> > > Patricia

> >

> > " Is " and " isn't " mutually co-arise and co-define. - D.

>

> And do the is and isn't of *that* statement

> co-arise and co-define?

>

> I.e. the statements:

> " 'Is' and 'isn't' mutually co-arise and co-define. "

> " 'Is' and 'isn't' do not mutually co-arise and co-define. "

> mutually co-arise and co-define?

>

> Bill

 

Let's see, my options in answering your question are either " yes " or

" no " aren't they?

 

Or, I can pull a Nagarjuna on ya and say:

 

neither " yes " nor " no, " nor " yes and no simultaneously, " nor

" something other than 'yes' and 'no' " ...

 

and you can say:

 

does that imply both 'yes' and 'no' and 'yes and no simultaneously' as

well as 'something other than yes or no'?

 

Well, all of this sounds like an intellectual exercise, unless one

notices that it is *so* right now, and affecting even the atoms of

one's body, right now, in/as immediate awareness, affecting every

thought-moment and feeling-moment, affecting even one's sense of being

in every aspect ...

 

-- Dan

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Nisargadatta , " pliantheart " <pliantheart

wrote:

 

> Very nice...

>

> you have carried it to its logical implosion

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> Bill

 

I like that -- " carry it to its logical implosion " ...

 

I have followed your words to their logical implosion!

 

;-)

 

LOL.

 

-- Dan