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From: "Abey John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Angry White Women...
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> belief is the beginning of sight
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"An eye consciousness actually apprehends only colors and shapes. Although
pots, pillars, and so forth appear to an eye consciousness and although it is
said that an eye consciousness sees them, pots, pillars, and so forth are not
objects of apprehension by an eye consciousness. Rather, the color and shape
of pots, pillars, and so forth--that is, their visible form--are objects of
apprehension by an eye consciousness and thus are also form constituents and
form-sources. Although pots and pillars are matter and are forms, they are not
visible forms, form-constituents or form-sources, but tangible objects,
tangible-object-constituents, and tangible-object-sources. Similarly, when one
sees the visible form of a human or horse, one sees their shape and color but
does not, in a sense, see a human or horse. Also, seeing earth and water is a
case of seeing their color, for earth and water are tangible objects, and
therefore, the eye does not see the capacity of hardness or of m
oistening. Furthermore, when the visible form of a pot is seen, and eye
consciousness does not conceive, 'This is a pot'; a mental consciousness is the
identifier and designator of names."
(Hopkins, Jeffrey, 'Meditations on Emptiness, P.225)
I'd say, UNBELIEVEABLE!!!
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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