Guest guest Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Thoughts are all equal in that they are autonomous and owe no allegiance to any thinker at all. They illuminate nothing but rather use the light to project their own show.So why do some philosophers contend that through thought one can get beyond thought?Because they have a talent for thoughts and love them? Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Nisargadatta , " tom " <jeusisbuen wrote: > >So why do some philosophers contend that >through thought one can get beyond thought? ....what do you think, Tom? Is it possible? And, could you be so kind and provide an example, and names... who has said that? What exactly was said? I only know that Advaita Vedanta is a Yoga tradition that uses thoughts / thinking about thoughts until what is / is seen as it is Nisargadatta in " I Am That " : " Realisation is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and one's self as unreal is ignorance. The cause of sorrow. To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought 'I am' is the polishing cloth. Use it. " Stefan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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