Richard, for me it's summed up in the only statement one can make, imo, with
100% certainty: awareness exists. As far as I can tell, that's the only thing I
can know for sure. What do you think?
From: "'Richard J. Williams' [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 8:22 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of
Creation
On 12/11/2014 1:24 PM, Share Long wrote:
>
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?
>
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.
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