From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 16:02:13 GMT
Hi David M,
> I have no problem with the emergence of an 'Other'
> within experience. I see the cosmos as evolving
> from a One to the Many. This is a matter of differentiation,
> complexity, evolution, and also alienation. But if we originate from a One,
> then there is always the possibility of withdrawing from dualism, or
> leaping across it to experience union in a new way, or at a different
> level
I didn't mean to imply there is a "problem" with dualism. Without it, we
wouldn't survive for long. We divide to survive. All thought, language,
and logic are based on such fundamental dualisms as yes/no, good/bad,
friend/enemy, beneficial/dangerous, Dynamic/static Quality.
> Non-dual unity is easy for children, but when attained in maturity
> is more of an achievement and contains a more reflective complexity. In a
> way such adult experience is not so much pre-language as beyond language,
> but consequently, also containing the achievements and experience of
> language but getting beyond it, perhaps we need to think about this less in
> terms of language's abstract symbols and more about the way language makes
> understanding possible, does not all ganuine understanding imply a
> non-dualistic leap over the divide from self to other.
Well, I'd like to hear more about the difference between language-based
understanding and "genuine" understanding. For example, to understand in
theory that "we are one" will not help me much when confronted with
mugger. Please explain further.
Thanks,
Platt
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