From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 20:21:25 GMT
At 12:19 PM 1/26/2005 -0600, Matt wrote:
>Well, I'm no expert and I can't answer in any Eastern idiom, but I imagine
>the response would start off by grasping the skeptic's proffered nettle
>and saying, "Yes, the knowledge which you are after is an illusion. Which
>makes your questions wrong-headed." I think most Eastern philosophies
>accept the concept of _maya_, which I believe says that the world we
>apprehend through our senses (which is the only world Westerners
>commonsensically believe in post-Enlightenment) is an illusion. From
>there I think the response would trail into the mold of saying that it is
>the exact search for these answers which causes a type of suffering and
>that if you cease your desire for those answers, you are one step closer
>to reaching Enlightenment (Buddha-style).
Thanks. Now, I suppose, it's my turn to apologize. - I'm sorry.
It's my understanding that Eastern philosophies would say that a world
constructed in the mind is illusion. That's something to seriously consider.
Marsha
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