--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"
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> > wrote:
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory
> Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
> "authfriend"
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> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I recall being told that MMY had once been
> asked
> > > > > why the Absolute had manifested, and he
> responded,
> > > > > "Perhaps for the sake of variety?"
> > > > >
> > > > > On another occasion he was asked the same
> question.
> > > > > His answer: "It didn't."
> > > >
> > > > Yes; I especially like the latter reply for
> its multivalence --
> > true
> > > > at (at least) several "levels of
> consciousness" simultaneously.
> > From
> > > > the Witness POV ("C.C.") the Absolute has
> nothing to do with
> the
> > > > Relative; from Brahman's POV there *is* no
> Absolute and no
> > > > Relative :-)
> > >
> > > Nor any POV either, however...
> >
> > Hm? How so, given Brahman's tendency to collapse
> Wholeness into
> > Point(s), hence POV ...? (Though technically this
> might be
> > "Krishna" rather than "Brahman," I suppose.) It
> sounds more as if
> > you are describing "T.C." rather than "Brahman,"
> unless I am
> > missing your point :-)
>
> If Brahman is One without a second, how can it
> be said to have a POV? Having a POV implies
> the existence of a *different* POV, which would
> in turn imply something other than Brahman ("a
> second") to hold that different POV.
>
> You could say Brahman encompasses *all* POVs, I
> guess. But not only would that flummox your
> point, you would get into the Four Negations, in
> which Brahman cannot be said either (1) to have a
> POV or (2) no POV, nor (3) all POVs, nor (4)
> neither a POV nor no POV. (With apologies to
> Nagarjuna.)
And in the forgoing koan the mind must stop in the
impossibility of comprehending that which is utterly
outside of its capacity to recognize.
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