--- Irmeli Mattsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My opinion: A concept that you cannot define
> shouldn't be used at all
> untill you can define it.
Of course, I agree. The problem comes in when the
concepts one is attempting to define entail
experiences outside of the waking state mind. If these
experiences have not occured you're left with an empty
concept. For example. MMY talks about pure
consciousness as unbounded. For years my mind thought
of unboundedness as spatially big. In enlightenment
one would "fill the cosmos". It's natural to think
this because in our waking state experience boundaries
cut space up into sections. Remove the boundaries and
you have a really big space. I even had experiences of
filling up the cosmos to varying degrees. But once the
foundational shift occured from a self to a no-self,
it became rather obvious what MMY was talking about
when he says, "unbounded", and it has nothing to do
with space or time. Many of the enlightenment concepts
that I thought I understood can only make true sense
within their phenomenological domain/condition. In
waking state they are empty and usually create
confusion.
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