--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> Thanks mate, I'm well and hope you are, too. I don't have a great deal of
> time
> to answer your previous post as I'm preparing for a 3 day Vipassana retreat
> starting tomorrow. Lot's of new doors to open and explore so I'm looking
> forward
> to returning and carrying on this diescussion! Just one thing that jumped out
> at
> me that I'd like to ask you. You wrote below:
>
> >..if Ultimate Reality is without inherent qualities such as intentionality,
> >and
> >all phenomena are unreal illusion, thenhow did this unreal illusion ever
> >arise
> >at all? The Advaita Vedanta people give no answer to this.
>
> Ok. Can you tell what you agree/disagree with in the below quote from Ramana
> Maharshi (which also, btw, seems to point at a particular meaning of
> 'emptiness'). For me, I think that he is much like Buddha in that he doesn't
> concern himself about where the universe began or came from (i.e. questions
> about the metaphysical), but rather concerns himself about how we can free
> ourselves from the illusion.
>
> "âWithout consciousness
> Time and space do not exist;
> They appear within Consciousness
> But have no reality of their own.
> It is like a screen on which
> All this is cast as pictures and move
> As in a cinema show.
> The Absolute Consciousness
> Alone is our real natureâ
>
> Mike
>
> Hi Mike. Actually, I have no problem with this. But he makes other statements
> in Be As You Are which I do disagree with. Also, as the wiki article on
> Maharshi mentions, he deviated from standard Advaita Vedanta on some points.
> My main disagreement with Maharshi and Advaita Vedanta is with their
> assertion that ultimate reality is NirGuna and that phenomenal existence is
> pre-determined.
Steve
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