10-16-2010, 08:33 AM
Unity, I never said finites do not exist... Try to understand what I am saying here. I called them as real as tables and chairs... That doesn't mean they're not illusions. It means they only exist from a perspective. Change your perspective and change those things. The thing that doesn't change when you change perspective is the thing more real than reality itself. IAM..
If you want to understand a thing, you don't try to get one 2d perspective lodged in your head. You try to get a depth in your understanding.
An illusion is a real thing, it exists. I never denied that. An illusion is a real thing that is different from what it seems to be to the observer. So it is on it's own horridly unreliable for extracting understanding from.
If you're trying to understand and appreciate a statue, you walk around it to capture a deeper essence instead of getting stuck on one perspective... This is the same, if you want to understand reality you have to have various perspectives on it.. Most people have but one and cannot even imagine there being others... They just call the others unreal or untrue. They can't fathom the possibility of there being more to reality than what they interpret it to be. You're basically doing the same.
A chair is a collection of atoms whirling through space in a mad dance.. A chair is also a place of comfort or a place of work. A chair can have meaning and bestow status upon the one sitting in it. A chair to some is not a chair to others... If you get hung up on your naive interpretation of chair you won't ever gain a deeper insight on it...
I'm also done here, the rest will only be repetition.
If you want to understand a thing, you don't try to get one 2d perspective lodged in your head. You try to get a depth in your understanding.
An illusion is a real thing, it exists. I never denied that. An illusion is a real thing that is different from what it seems to be to the observer. So it is on it's own horridly unreliable for extracting understanding from.
If you're trying to understand and appreciate a statue, you walk around it to capture a deeper essence instead of getting stuck on one perspective... This is the same, if you want to understand reality you have to have various perspectives on it.. Most people have but one and cannot even imagine there being others... They just call the others unreal or untrue. They can't fathom the possibility of there being more to reality than what they interpret it to be. You're basically doing the same.
A chair is a collection of atoms whirling through space in a mad dance.. A chair is also a place of comfort or a place of work. A chair can have meaning and bestow status upon the one sitting in it. A chair to some is not a chair to others... If you get hung up on your naive interpretation of chair you won't ever gain a deeper insight on it...
I'm also done here, the rest will only be repetition.