Thursday, March 4, 2010
harsh words ?
Tibetan Dzogchen features a two-pronged approach, of which one prong is missing(or weak) in most contemporary non-dual pointing. Many people, these days, are pointing to what the Tibetans call "spontaneous presence" using terms like Awareness, Being, Oneness, etc. However, most give very short shrift to what the Tibetans call "cutting up solidity", which I would call "deconstructing duality." Without a thorough exposure of the invalidity of the perceptual/conceptual basis for the dualistic worldview, these "non-dual" pointers CAN largely serve as a new belief structure(necessarily dualistic) for the intact, "individual knower" or "experiencer" OF "Awareness", "Oneness", "Presence", etc.
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(Without a thorough exposure of the invalidity of the perceptual/conceptual basis for the dualistic worldview, these "non-dual" pointers CAN largely serve as a new belief structure(necessarily dualistic) for the intact, "individual knower" or "experiencer" OF "Awareness", "Oneness", "Presence", etc.)
ReplyDeleteWhy does one without the other lend itself to a "belief system"? Simply because the perceptual / conceptual basis hasn't been undermined?
"Fred's" sense of being a perceiver and conceiver of separate things was the false basis for his dualistic worldview, when, in fact, there was no "him" separate from "anything else." For him, SEEING WAS BELIEVING (and knowing was believing), and, of course, not just for him. If anyone is wondering, "Fred" was the name Wayne Liquorman gave to a section of a kleenex which unfolding, symbolized the manifestation of Totality(Consciousness).
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