Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 2:40 am
attofishpi wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 1:36 am
...he formed from the pantheistic matter that is God.
A pantheistic "god" couldn't even
exist. "Existence" would be an impossible concept, then.
Concepts are possible.
Are you not reading a concept right now on this white board, the concept that appears to you in coloured symbols which are being revealed to you right now.
And the only reason you the reader are able to see the coloured symbols is because they are written on a contrasting screen so as to stand out from the screen. But notice, that as soon as you start to read and make sense of what you are reading, it is important that both the screen and it's contents are inseparably one reality, even though appearing as two thing, the words and the blank screen on which the words are being looked upon. Both the concepts and the screen on which they appear, cannot be known to exist, independently in and of themself without the other to compliment it and make it whole.
For example: a pure white blank screen, is not going to show anything, or know anything, even though it's here, and has to be here, in order to be able to know a concept, written upon it's screen. Well that screen, is like what awareness is. The blank screen of awareness, is a metaphor, the absence of which is never an experience, so awareness always has to be first and fundamental. There is only here the experience of awareness aware of itself, one without a second, and yet appearing as the many, as the words are being looked upon, as they are being read by the one reader.
Notice consciousness is in every single one of us, it's the same one consciousness behind every creatures eyes, and the consciousness that is human is appearing in every human, and so every humans reading this white board, are seeing the exact same images, appearing as words, and are conceptually known to all of us who are reading via the knowledge we already have accumulated since our birth, namely, our conception of ourself. So you see, concepts are possible. It works for other languages as well, all languages are concepts known by the knower of those particular languages.
And so as soon as words start to appear upon that blank nothingness, is when something appears and reveals itself to itself, via the contrast, via the complimentary opposite, which is always an inseparable unity and nothing else.
The contradiction is necessary if the reader which is consciousness is able to make sense of it's reality, because it is through the words, that consciousness becomes consciousness of itself in it's own conception, via the concept of it's own knowing.
Remember, there is no such thing as non-duality, because non-duality is not a thing. Duality is all things, all concepts, known to the ONE and only ONE...that one is the reader.
Many authors appear as concepts known to the reader, but there is only ever ONE reader reading writing no one ever wrote. That's the illusory nature of knowledge.
The illusion is all that's ever known and seen.
And so concepts are possible, just as illusions are possible. Things are never what they seem to be, nor are they never NOT what they seem to be.
The apparent contradiction is DIVINE
..impatient! One would think one such as myself with all the time in the world would no longer be tainted by such a vice