On 12/11/2014 1:24 PM, Share Long wrote:
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salyavin, I think the 2 simplest answers are:
the universe never started; it just always was
or, the universe is starting at every nanosecond.
Which one of these is most wobbly, do you think?
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In order to answer this question you would have to apply the Buddhist
logic of Gaudapada or Nagarjuna - science cannot answer this question,
it can only *infer* that their was a beginning to the universe and that
it is expanding, or not, according to the "big bang theory" - it's just
sheer speculation, Share, because nothing exists outside of the
conscious mind and there is only one mind - not a body and a mind -
that's a dualistic concept. According to the logical doctrine propounded
by Gaudapada's Alatasanti:
"/There is only One - there are not two. Everything but the One is an
illusion. The One is the only Reality. The One can only be experienced
in transcendental consciousness."/
This is the cardinal doctrine of Adwaita Vedanta: There is no creation,
no dissolution; no coming forth, no coming to be; nothing moves here or
there; there is no change. There is only consciousness, or not.
Excerpt from mANDUkya kArikA IV by gauDapAda:
/"Duality is only an appearance; non-duality is//
//the real truth. The object exists as an object//
//for the knowing subject; but it does not exist//
//outside of consciousness because the distinction//
//of subject and object is within consciousness."/
Works cited:
Raju, P.T., *The Philosophical Traditions of India*. Motilal
Banarsidass. 1992. p. 177.
Sharma, Chandrahar, *A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy*. Rider. p.
245-246.
Stcherbatsky, Theodore. *Buddhist Logic.* Dover, 1962. p. 281.
