Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:43 pm1. Thus In one sentence you are stating that one cannot know they are "complete, whole, without beginning or end" then in another sentence you are stating one is "complete, whole, without beginning or end"...thus one knows they are "complete, whole, without beginning or end".
You cannot know anything, because there is no you. You is just a known concept by that which is unknowable.
*Concepts are known, but no concept has ever been seen.* < That statement alone shows there is only this immediate *not-knowing knowing* which can only be likened to a dream, or an illusion.
In the conceptual context of being both Real and Unreal simultaneously.
There is no absolute certainty that both concepts have any reality or substance to them, because they are simply known as a knowledge which can only point to it's illusory nature... think about that, concepts are words, and words are basically made of sound, out of which comes a whole plethora of stories..aka fictions upon what is essentially and always immediately this ever not-knowing mystery.
But that's just how I here, am seeing it...As for you there, you may see it differently, and that will not matter, simply because 'seeing it' is 'being seen' by the same ONE mystery.
Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:43 pm2. To state that reality cannot be put into words is to put reality into words by stating an apophatic definition of what reality really is.
What I meant to say then, is you cannot put into words the 'creator' of reality. Which is a story made of concepts which are words heard as sound.
So basically, it's like putting ''Sound'' into words. And 'sound' is sourced in silence. So how to talk about silence without filling it up with sound? All you get is more words. So yes in essence, a KNOWN reality is made up of itself only, namely words, which is sound, which is silence. It's the mother of all conceptual confusion, and contradiction, but can never be avoided.
Without words, if humans had never learnt to talk.... what is reality, what is sound, what is any thing at all?
And the answer would be in the question....which is no thing at all...which is every thing.
Nonduality is the ONE question to all our answers.
Naming ONE can only ever be One naming.
Therefore, what ever is known conceptually will be known by the same one, created by that one only, and is why the Religious God being known as only 'Good' is the most ridiculous hoax knowledge has ever played on itself.
Knowledge comes from silence, the greatest unsolvable mystery in the entire universe. The conceptually created entity, cannot stand to not know itself, so will make-up just about anything to sustain it's personal pseudo-reality.
Remember, knowledge is sound heard as words...and with words comes the knowledge of you. But this you is as empty as the sky itself.
There is no you prior to words. Just as there is no you in a cow, or a sheep, etc...because cows and sheep have no concept of themselves as separate entities.
Knowledge of a YOU is the mother of all conceptual illusions.