interesting, a good read but lengthy.... .....your answer the previous topic?
On Mar 30, 8:24 pm, Sandeep-Kuber Technologies <[email protected]> wrote: > Even today modern science is struggling with the why and how of the > working of the cerebral cortex. > > As neuro-biologists Eccles puts it, "we are compelled to consider the > behaviour of the individual particles of matter in the active cerebral > cortex as something "outside physics". > > What all this amounts to is that we are still asking the question that > Aristotle was asking two thousand years ago: > > "How is the mind attached to the body? > > What is the nature of the thinker?" > > The endeavour to discover the nature of thought is basically misconceived . > > Because that which is thinking and this which is thought about, are one > and the same. > > Because there can be no subject-object relationship in such quest. > > Because that which is sought is this which is seeking. > > In the absence of a mirror, how can the eye see itself? > > The development of a newborn infant is a fascinating panorama. > > A single cell, during the period of nine months has progressed through > the successive embryonic states and has culminated into a human > personality. > > The process of development automatically continues without interruption > even after birth. > > In the course of the next few days, weeks and months the infant rapidly > increases its weight and develops the other capacities gradually, > including the mental capacities which create in the infant the sense of > the exercise of will and volition. > > This development of the infant, like that of a plant, is not really > through an outside source but its own inherent energy contained in that > single cell which has thus developed. > > This inherent vital force within the growing embryo contains the self- > regulating properties which ensure that the end-product will be > according to norm in spite of any accidental hazards that may arise > during the course of the development. > > It is the genetic code of the fertilized egg and the impacting > conditioning which that fertilized egg received through it's > existence....which determines the potential of the new individual > ....and its actualization. > > Yet one is so thoroughly identified with one's body..... that to the > posed question... > > .. "apart from your name and form, .......who (or what) are you?"... > > .is met with derision, bewilderment and even fear, which expresses as > defensiveness. > > We are accustomed to think of our body as that solid, material stuff > with a certain volume and weight which is susceptible to pain and > pleasure and ultimate decay and death. > > But is the body really solid? > > However solid the body may appear to be, the established fact remains > that it is from a single cell that the body has been developed. > > The electron-scanning microscope, with a magnification of several > thousand times, shows the human body..... > > .... as a sort of phantasy, ...... > > ......a seascape as different from our perception of the body with our > eyes as could possibly be imagined. > > The pores of the skin open like ocean caves. > > A bundle of nerve fibers curving its way across a section of muscle > tissues appears like a sea serpent lying on a giant walrus. > > What appears as thousands of tadpoles swimming furiously against the > current are,....... sperm cells struggling for survival against > incredible odds. > > The whole ......presenting a sea spectacle. > > Based on what the electron microscope has so far revealed, it would seem > to indicate........ the "solid" flesh dissolving into a sort of > condensed vapour, muscle fiber assuming a distinctly crystalline aspect > showing that it is made of long spiral molecules interconnected and held > in place by imperceptible waves pulsing many trillions of times a second. > > Within molecules would be atoms, their interiors veiled by vague clouds > of electrons. > > Then the shell dissolves and it is all emptiness. > > Deep, deep within that emptiness, the subatomic physicist tells us, is a > nucleus .... > > ....which being an oscillating field, begins to dissolve, showing > further organized fields, protons, neutrons > > and even smaller particles, each of which also dissolves into nothing > but the rhythm of the universal pulse. > > This pulsating rhythm ....is what the mystic has apperceived. > > In considering the question of what the body is made of, the ineluctable > conclusion is that there is no solidity at all either at the most > sublime level of the body, or at heart of the Universe. > > This would seem less astonishing if it could remember that the > characters in your last night sleep dream appeared equally solid. > > The compact nucleus at the very heart of the atom, then, is nothing > solid but rather a dynamic pattern of concentrated energy throbbing and > vibrating at incredible speeds, beyond imagination. > > A veritable frenzied dance, the Dance of Shiva, in which creation and > destruction take place continuously and simultaneously. > > As particle physicist James Jeans avers....... the universe is mental > rather than material. > > In ancient times, the mystic declared....... the glorious or worthless > external world (depending on the innate conditioning viewing that world) > > as "chittamatra (mind-stuff only) .......or vijnaptimatra > (representation only) > > The astronomer also presents us with the same beguiling pointing when he > observes..... > > .....that when galaxies sometimes meet head-on, all they do is pass > through each other like two summer clouds. > > The human body, like all living objects, has its own electromagnetic > field, and therefore, we are affected to a varying extent one way or > another by the pulsating fields that criss-cross one another throughout > space, ..... > > ....not only by the nearer events like the turning of the earth on its > axis, the tides and the seasons, but even by the distant solar flares > known as sunspots. > > It would seem that as the mystic has always held ....each one of us is > in direct or indirect relationship with all that is. > > It is through the senses that the various organized fields of rhythm > > (that apparently constitute the totality of an individual entity) are > connected with > > one another and with the rhythms of the entire universe. > > It would thus seem that there cannot be a separate personal identity .... > > ....if every human body is nothing but emptiness, a concentrated pattern > of energy. > > But the wonder that which-is.........is........ has so contrived that > each emptiness, > > each individual body and each personal identity has an essential > characteristic > > that distinguishes it from all others. > > The botanist tells us that every leaf on a tree is in some way or > another at least slightly different from all others. > > The chance of two fingerprints being identical has been computed at less > than one in sixty billion. > > Brain wave patterns are observed to be clearly distinctive. > > An effective voiceprint definitely identifies the speaker through the > recorded voice frequencies. > > A new born baby's breathing pattern is said to be as distinctive as a > fingerprint. > > It would seem therefore that the evolutionary process itself has ensured > individual variations within each species by means of a series of > rhythmic wave functions composing a personalized inner pulse that > synchronized in varying designs with everything else and everyone else > in the world. > > It is this inner pulse and the extent of its synchronity with the other > person or thing which produces instant attraction, revulsion or total > indifference. > > The all-in-one-ness of the mystic has been now clearly accepted by the > modern scientist. > > A formulation made by the physicist J.S. Bell- Bell's Theorem- > particularly emphasizes that "no theory of reality compatible with > quantum theory can require spatially separated events to be separate". > > This means, simply, that ever events distant or local.....are > interconnected. > > What is more, it already implies that each electron must know what every > other electron in the universe is doing .... > > ..in order to know what it itself has to do every moment. > > It further implies that each subatomic particle within is in touch with > all that IS. > > The mystic intuitively understands the problem and the solution that is > contained in the problem: > > All there is, is the primal ENERGY which is nothing other than > CONSCIOUSNESS .... > > ...which has produced on or within itself the MIND-STUFF..... > > of the universe (chittamatra) as a representation only (Vijnaptimatra). > > In other words, all there is, is CONSCIOUSNESS which in the case of > sentient beings may be called SENTIENCE, an aspect of consciousness > which enables it to cognize other sentient beings. > > If the body is scientifically seen as emptiness, a throbbing energy, the > question would arise: > > What then is a "sentient being"? > > The question answers itself. > > In the sentient being, if the being is merely emptiness, then the being > that is sensorially perceptible ..... > > ....must be a mere appearance like a mirage on the sands, and the > "sentient being" must be what remains....... SENTIENCE. > > If the physical being is merely an appearance, an object, a phenomenon, > it is quite obvious that it cannot be expected to perform any action as > an independent entity on its own initiative. > > The fact is illustrated by the Chinese Master Chuang-Tzu's story of the > sow who died while her piglets were suckling- the little piglets just > left the inanimate body. > > The body became inanimate because the animus was no longer within. > > This animus, the sentience in the body, regarded by the mystic as the > consciousness ( or the "Heart" or the "Mind") > > which is not the personal element in each sentient being ........ > > .....but the universal, primal energy which pulsates in all sentient > beings and indeed in every particle in the entire universe. > > The biological object........as "a" particle of the > Universe...........is ......."an" expression of the pulsation. > > This impersonal or universal consciousness is, therefore, what the > sentient being really is. > > And, indeed, all there is, all that exists, is nothing but the universal > consciousness. > > This impersonal ... > > read more »
