question ?
Ian Goddard
igoddard at EROLS.COM
Sat Jun 15 20:52:17 CDT 1996
At 07:10 PM 6/14/96 -0500, Sankar Jayanarayanan wrote:
> If the "seen" is non-existent, how then can there be a "seer"
> for the word "seer" to have meaning?
IAN: It is not that the seen is "non-existent," but rather, it is that the
* belief * that what is seen is other than I am that is false thus void.
It is not the "world" that is false, it is the belief that "I am apart
from all that I am not," that is false. Beyond the belief that I am
separated from all that is assumed to be not-I, lies the reality
in which I am is at once the seer (I) and the seen (not-I).
self-realization --> I = (I + not-I) = I am All
A = (A + not-A) = A is All
What is true for I am (that I am is all) is also, as it must be, true for
the identity of all things. That this identity, or unity, of duality is
the truth, is verified only through the unification experience and/or
through understanding the logical mechanics of relational identity.
The Spell of Maya is the fallacy of separation. The antidote is: A = ~A
If a thing is all that it implies,
as A implies not-A,
A is not-A.
A is all.
If a thing is all those features necessary for its existence,
as not-A is a feature necessary for the existence of A,
A is not-A.
A is all.
Thus there is no thing, where "thing" implies separation.
Law of Identity: A is A, relative to not-A. A = {A, ~A}
Law of Nonidentity: If there is 100% A, there is 0% A. A = ~A
absolute reality: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/reality.html
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