Guest guest Posted November 7, 1999 Report Share Posted November 7, 1999 Realization is immediate, it involves and requires no duration. A durational experience involves time, and time involves separation of the observer and observed. Being immediate and nondurational, realization is not a process. Involving no time, thought has no context; neither reflection nor use of memory are applicable. Realization is reality itself. Reality itself cannot be said either to move or not to move. Classifying reality as immediate or as "real" is merely to provide a device for pointing, as reality itself cannot be treated according to descriptive categories. Various reasons have been given for this pointing, including eternal life, the end of suffering, the attaining of liberation, and knowledge of perfect love/being. All of these reasons are necessarily poetry -- metaphorical expressions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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