Cory wrote:
>The man who came to be known as the Buddha was a prince from a very wealthy
>family with a young family of his own. He walked away when he was 29. What
>would drive such a man to walk away from his family, from everything he
>knew
>and loved, never to return? Wild horses couldn't have dragged me away from
>my family when I was that age. And he ended up a homeless shiftless beggar,
>traveling from town to town and talking to whoever would listen to him. For
>51 years! I can't begin to fathom why anyone would willingly chose such a
>path. But that is not for me to know, it's as simple as that.
Perhaps this is a valuable way to look at enlightenment:
Being healthy and secure, and after having developed good, strong centers of
social and intellectual value, or an ego-self, the next step is for the
intellecual level to realize it's inherent limitations (paradox and platypi)
and step aside ("die") so that something better might lead the Way (love for
Good and others). So that life might evolve, so that DQ might push the
increasingly static intellectual envelope in which philosophy/ers seems to
be caught.
Clearly, this is not the complete elimination of social or intellectual self
any more than the -literal- killing of the biological self. I believe that
Jesus most certainly did not -literally- die biologically, but
metaphorically. What he did was re-evaluate, literally, his experience both
actual and possible. He chose a higher way of living over a lower, static
way. Reason conquered emotion, and (?) conquered reason... (meaning - he
would NOT have found it unreasonable to wash the feet of lepers and other
low-quality humans stuck with bad bio/soc karma or whatnot) He evolved.
Good. So have lots of other men and women, Buddha being in my opinion one of
the greatest travellers.
What is that process, of dying to one's self, leading to service of others?
Why in God's name would you -actually- be "unselfish", ALL the time?
Why - what else but a new evaluation of experience, which means, in the moq,
the literal metaphysical creation of a new pattern of value - or center of
energy, if it is properly latched into stability.
I'm not sure I'm being clear. Let's say: Evolution is a process of valuation
and re-evaluation and Dynamic valuation... one pattern is substituted for
another, when the quality of those centers of experience dictate the
"betterness" of the move on down the track.
"Radical" Empiricism. Hmmm...
Rich
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