04-15-2014, 12:26 PM
Here's my take
You are all things, in potential.
Each whole is a part of a corresponding whole and so on, the circle widens and includes all, it's one thing. So in a sense yes, you are are everything because you are an integral part of the everything. But still, a part of the whole, you are not the ultimate whole which encompasses all the individual parts. As we experience things subjectively as limited beings we are indeed "all things" in potential as we have many (billions) more years and lessons (conscious evolution) before the "dissolution of the unified self with all there is", effectively becoming all there is. Becoming whole=approaching being all things
Subjectivity=separation from the object, incongruity between perception and actual experience, as the experience is moulded by the perspective. Reaching shared understanding (approaching objectivity) is what STO is all about and where everyone eventually ends up (dissolving of self) because the objective understanding/awareness encompasses all, as it is not contained by any subjective understanding, as the subjective understanding is a part of the whole rather than the whole itself.
Playing with the idea that you really are "all things" and taking a solipsistic stance with that is fallacious.
You are all things, in potential.
Each whole is a part of a corresponding whole and so on, the circle widens and includes all, it's one thing. So in a sense yes, you are are everything because you are an integral part of the everything. But still, a part of the whole, you are not the ultimate whole which encompasses all the individual parts. As we experience things subjectively as limited beings we are indeed "all things" in potential as we have many (billions) more years and lessons (conscious evolution) before the "dissolution of the unified self with all there is", effectively becoming all there is. Becoming whole=approaching being all things
Subjectivity=separation from the object, incongruity between perception and actual experience, as the experience is moulded by the perspective. Reaching shared understanding (approaching objectivity) is what STO is all about and where everyone eventually ends up (dissolving of self) because the objective understanding/awareness encompasses all, as it is not contained by any subjective understanding, as the subjective understanding is a part of the whole rather than the whole itself.
Playing with the idea that you really are "all things" and taking a solipsistic stance with that is fallacious.