tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102779776758563952.post5066218207696277720..comments2023-10-10T04:34:25.848-04:00Comments on You Are Dreaming: Not-TwoRandall Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004296258866577268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102779776758563952.post-67932836914764188722012-01-08T20:36:29.879-05:002012-01-08T20:36:29.879-05:00Thank you Randall...thank you for your your time. ...Thank you Randall...thank you for your your time. Love to you Billbilltyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06726836387521342250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102779776758563952.post-37524037027724222522012-01-06T16:24:25.243-05:002012-01-06T16:24:25.243-05:00Bill,
Hello again my friend. Good to hear from y...Bill,<br /><br />Hello again my friend. Good to hear from you.<br /><br />This question can be answered a couple of ways. First of all, we can only call it experience if we've already split reality down the middle into a world and a witness of the world. This is already false, so to talk about experience we must ignore what is already obvious. We assume experience is a reality then wonder why it appears. The question is - has it appeared? From what perspective? Only from a perspective of the witness of the world, which is already too much, already a false split of what is always whole.<br /><br />The second way to look at this is - appearance is mithya - not real of itself - anything that appears is a pattern - an expression - a pattern of what? An expression of what? The ornament is only ever gold - if it is shaped as a chain or a pendant or a ring, we might say ring exists, chain exists, however we are overlooking the immanence of gold - the reality of gold. Chain only has dependent reality - it is just a concept FOR gold, a form OF gold, gold patterning AS chain - appearing AS chain - expressing AS chain. So we cannot really talk of chain as something real, we can only give the reality to gold, in this analogy.<br /><br />So the world is there - but we take the appearance of it as absolute - the trees, the passing clouds, the warm breeze - these are all patterns or expressions - of WHAT? What is the reality underneath? What is the cause? We say it's the elements but we can say the elements are atoms - the cause of an atom is the patterning of energy - what is energy a pattern of?<br /><br />So we can only truly say that there is an intelligence to it - a form-less-ness that IS - the instant we can quantify it we're already gone too far - to quantify it means we've measured it - it's appeared - it's patterned. Then we take that pattern, give it a name, apply reality to it and then call it separate, independent, self-existing. The world is just like this.<br /><br />The solution is not to go anywhere or get anything but to realize the falseness of our ideas about the world and what we are. When we realize we're giving false reality to the world, the world doesn't disappear (because it never really appeared to begin with). We know what we "call" the world to be just that essence, that intelligence, that "gold" to the "chain". And you cannot be anything but THAT, yes? Can this ever be denied?<br /><br />See if you can come to a certainty about this - if you can what is left to do but enjoy the show?<br /><br /><br />love<br />randallRandall Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18004296258866577268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102779776758563952.post-3331894433554796782012-01-06T16:10:32.191-05:002012-01-06T16:10:32.191-05:00Hello Randall,
Great post...thank you.
I hope yo...Hello Randall,<br /><br />Great post...thank you.<br /><br />I hope you can comment on my question which I do not know how to format.<br /><br />It is along the lines of "there is only seeing, there is only knowing..." <br /><br />When this false I is seen through... how is it possible that anything appears at all? If there is only universal seeing then anything that may arise like tasting or hearing or any kind of natural functioning...this surely can only be said to be experienced if this damned I claims the experience...otherwise there is no experience...Yes?<br /><br />Love to you Billbilltyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06726836387521342250noreply@blogger.com