Tuesday, March 23, 2010

"inseparability"

Is the sun prior to its shining?
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7 comments:

  1. Chandrika ShubhamMarch 23, 2010 at 9:45 AM

    Both are equally important.

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  2. No Plane ZenMarch 23, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    "They" are inseparable. The ground of Being, or however you want to label, is the prior-ness, or nondual-ness, inseparable-ness.

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  3. tom sullivanMarch 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM

    Isn't "the ground of Being", or whatever we label, a concept?

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  4. tom sullivanMarch 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM

    Hi Chandrika, I posted that question about the sun as a metaphor for such "dualities" as Consciousness and its contents.
    NPZ, please forgive the bluntness of my last question(my cats were crying for their breakfast). It's becoming a pet peeve(no reference to cats intended) of mine, that "everyone" writes about Consciousness,etc. as something "existent". I have difficulty keeping my(what Suzanne Foxton calls) "pedantry" at a manageable level.

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  5. No Plane ZenMarch 24, 2010 at 11:21 AM

    If concepts weren't used in this venue there would be no writing and responding.

    Silence, or no words, wouldn't point very well on a blank page. A blank page is fine of course, but why bother looking at that?

    Oh wait, aren't 'silence' and 'blank page' just concepts?

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  6. tom sullivanMarch 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM

    Of course. However, my point was that "the Ground of being" isn't prior to "its radiance." Neither one exists, as such, except as concepts.

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  7. No Plane ZenMarch 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM

    Excellent!

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