potential between absolutes?
I've gotten the new-ish Sam Harris book about Morality, a great German's
Chocolate-deluxe cupcake thingie with a candle and everything! It's that
time of year again. 28, FTW!
On 7/11/2011 2:12 PM, RP Singh wrote:
> The state of enlightenment , or self-realization , is simply a state
> of awareness like the dream -state or deep-sleep , and can be attained
> through concentration or substance - use. It is the mind which is
> aware and as the mind is finite , whatever it is aware of is also
> finite. The very fact that the so-called transcendental state can be
> experienced through use of entheogens casts a doubt about its
> spiritual nature. A person experiences such a state and when he comes
> out of it is just his ordinary self. God-state cannot be experienced
> by any being as it is beyond experience and can only be understood. We
> find it difficult to accept that we are mortal and hence believe in
> re-incarnation etc. The fact is that the " I " has nowhere to go on
> the death of the organism , it is simply an attribute of life and is
> no more on the death of the body , and is thus just an " illusion " .
> This is , of course , my reading of the matter and can be erroneous as
> my reason is not infallible and is subject to my limitations.
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