From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 18:39:25 GMT
Paul:Perhaps our reality begins with this nothingness
> and infinite potential and is created by gradually shutting out this
> potential on the basis of value. Enlightenment is then the reverse of
> this process until nothingness is restored.
DM: I strongly agree with this. Clearly becoming actual
is a sacrifice of freedom/potential so that we can have this
finite world, a gift perhaps, but for it to be fun we have to
let freedom/potential emerge again via complexity.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Turner" <paulj.turner@ntlworld.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:44 PM
Subject: RE: MD SQ-SQ tension/coherence in white noise.
> Hello Mark
>
> Mark said:
> Apparently, babies become calm when played white noise. If we
> contemplate the relative lack of patterned experience of babies, i
> wonder if there is significance to be found here?
>
> Paul:
> It's funny you mention this, I have recently witnessed this effect of
> what may be near to "white noise" (vacuum cleaner, hair dryer) on my
> baby daughter and wondered about it. I thought that perhaps white noise
> is somehow related to the white light people report at near death
> experiences. From this link I was struck by the idea that the experience
> of white noise and white light can, perhaps only by analogy, help one
> understand what is meant by the line from the Buddhist Heart Sutra that,
> "form is emptiness, emptiness is form." White noise is pure potential
> and is clearly something, yet it contains nothing discernible and so is
> equally nothing at all. Perhaps our reality begins with this nothingness
> and infinite potential and is created by gradually shutting out this
> potential on the basis of value. Enlightenment is then the reverse of
> this process until nothingness is restored.
>
> Maybe then, this sound reminds babies of the wholeness from which they
> have only recently emerged?
>
> Just thought I'd share my conjecture with you. Thanks for sharing your
> ponderings Mark.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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