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Jay @jvmenon
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All knowledge reveals itself as a bundle of illusions - A THREAD!
Knowledge presupposes the requirement of a subject and an object, the two thoughts "I" and "another."
An incompleteness creates the illusion that everything really exists in time, measured in space, and shaped in form.
The tapestry of all spacetime has already been woven,..
I may be perceiving the world all right, but seldom do I look at myself in the act of seeing the world. Trapped in a world of time, limited by, embedded in an earthly self and entirely deceived by the seeming reality of things into believing it to be the reality.
A hazy twilight, neither day nor night, yet in one sense day but in another night - A dream, real enough while I am within it but unreal when I am not.
Alice in Wonderland: "You're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real," said Tweedledum. "If I wasn't real," Alice said, "I shouldn't be able to cry." Interrupted Tweedledum: "I hope you don't suppose those are real tears?"
The status of the world is contradictory. It is a thing because it exists but a no-thing because it is only an appearance.
Being aware that subject and object of consciousness are one, ephemeral becomes the nature of things -dualisms dissolve. The observer who sees becomes the object that is perceived.
Every bit of awareness occurs inside time and space - the observer involved with the observed.
Such is this relativity of all things to an observer that because the world being experienced is a mental one, never seeing the world as it really is in itself or as a being who was observing it from outside would observe it.
Consequently I may never see the world without unconsciously seeing the world mixed up with myself.
The "I" plus something other than the "I" constitute the field of consciousness.
I may never know the world in itself but only the world in a state of interaction with myself.
I may never know the self in itself but only the self in a condition of interaction with the world.
Perspectives are subject to change, but the observer never changes - all transformations are to be seen but the one who sees them is invisible, concealed.
Mind plays tricks by clothing the world as matter, time, and space - a world beset by the profoundest illusions.
Not only is this world not the real world, it is not even its shadow, but only the shadow of its shadow. The world does exist, we are surrounded by it.
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