---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote :
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? Well I agree. All we actually know is what our senses permit our minds to see and hear, and we decide what it's all about for ourselves from that. From: "'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... [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.
