To encounter the absolute is not yet enlightenment? The perspective in
which they are not opposites is just a beginning - in the market place each
opposite is well formed, complete reality, and the distinctions are no
different than the unity. Ignore the concrete and your head will be
thumped.
Thanks,
--Chris
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On Jun 1, 2013 10:26 AM, "Joe" <desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Well, I'm just expressing a model or a function or condition of things as
> experienced in a state in which duality (and thought) were IMPOSSIBLE (for
> about two months, unremittingly, the first time). I don't mean to harangue
> with merely personal and idiosyncratic insistence(s). Not me! ;-)
>
> But I like your word "resolved" a lot (even though you put it
> parenthetically).
>
> I would have to go further, and say that Buddha Nature of course "admits"
> of these apparent opposites. They are still there. But they are just not
> experienced as opposites by someone who is awake. Their more true
> family-relatedness is appreciated ("seen"), as part of one's own nature.
>
> And since they are of your own nature, there is no "contrast" that can
> assert itself, and so no way for you to experience them as in any way
> opposite: they are only KIN to each other, in Buddha Nature; and, KIN to
> you (me)!
>
> My word-choice would be "admits"; or, "nonetheless admits".
>
> Or, "welcomes lovingly and seamlessly"; or, "supports as 'actually'
> non-dual features, mis-perceived AS dual by beings who are yet dreaming".
>
> --Joe
>
> > uerusuboyo@... wrote:
> >
> > Joe, How about 'reconciled' (resolved) instead of transcended?
>
>
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