is and isn't / Dan

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Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033

wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , pliantheart <pliantheart@>

wrote:

> >

> >

> >

> > --- dan330033 <dan330033@> wrote:

> >

> > > 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

 

Very nice...

 

you have carried it to its logical implosion

 

 

Bill