Hi all
Appearances and reality, how could we ever think that anything we experience
is not real,
surely it is all real, might be different sorts of real, but it is all real.
Is the mirage real?
of course it is, you just can't walk up to it and drink from it like the
other sort of visions
of an oasis. Is the stick in the water really bent, well yes the stick in
the water really does
look bent, but the stick you pull out of the water does not, it is all real
but different sorts
of real. Ideas are real, things you can kick are real, things you can write
about are real,
yes pink fish that can speak are real, but they are real fictions created by
the imagination,
just not been created by natural selection, but still real. Feelings are
real, all qualities are
real, whether attached to objects, thought, imagined, felt, described,
communicated about.
Everything fits into DQ or SQ, or in to the levels of SQ, even nothing is
real and should not
be left out. Appearances are all real, real appearances. Is anything more
real? Well
experience is unavoidable, the context for every other pattern that we
experience,
whether in the shared empirical sphere or the privately imagined sphere it
is all real.
Are some patterns or SQ somehow prior to others in time, well sure in
context 2 we
can tell a cosmic story of nothing and plasma and particles and atoms and
molecules
and plants and animals and human beings and there is probably a pretty set
order in
which these patterns of SQ can emerge, but they are all real, and new
qualities emerge
at the higher levels that transcend the qualities of the lower/earlier
levels. Is this not the
MOQ that we can all agree on? Sure context 1 comes first, experience is the
context of
all SQ, but context 2 allows us to understand how experience has evolved up
to and includes
the human level as the flame at the top of the tree to use an alchemist
image, flame is a
good image for DQ, it rises up the tree of the SQ levels, existing at each
level, the tree is
made of water, as it is all patterns in the flux and flow, the coming and
going, frozen,
eddying but for just a moment, moving in waves, like a fountain, flowing and
pouring and
recycling, substanceless I suggest, based on relationship between one
pattern and
another in the process of change, every relationship a form of experience on
different levels.
Regards
David M
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