Enigma108
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quote: ORIGINAL: Enigma108 Transcendence is only an idea until it is directly experienced, and the only way someone who has not experienced Transcendence can deal with it is as an intellectual concept. If you mean by 'transcendence' an experience and a fitting of that experience into reason rather than 'promoting of it above reason', then, yes, fine. If not, then we have a dead end because, for all the reasons stated in my last post, I'm not going to demote reason and I wouldn't advise anyone else to, either. It's requires burning a bridge that I think it's much too risky to burn. How can one have reason in nothingness? Rosseau, I think it was, said one of my favorite sayings, that "Reason is a whore...it will lie with anything." Reason is not high enough to be Truth. "...Lao Tsu, Christ, Mohamed, the great poets, etc. etc. etc. What is that thread that runs though them, said in different ways? . I'm sorry, but that, to me, isn't a list of great thinkers. It's a list of poets, plus a few well-known mystics (a couple of whom I've read, albeit just a little). Not a mention of any post-Enlightenment western historian, philosopher, social thinker, scientist . . . . Do you begin to see why this can't speak to me?" The list was just a casual run off the top of my head, and in any case, they were not famed for their "thinking", they were famed as experiencers of Reality. You appear to be a "thinker"--someone who weighs and measures the pros and cons, and ideas versus idea, and correct and incorrect. But I am talking about, as Rumi said, "out beyond right doing and wrong doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." As long as you are in the business of weights and measures, you are in the field of duality and duality can never be Truth, because to be True, it has to contain both. I do see why this can't speak to you, because your way (and I'm not demeaning your way, but only trying to point out that it's limited) pits the intellect against Reality, it says that to be True, it has to be only this or that, and better than others, whereas, Reality is all-encompassing and open to direct experience. It simply IS. After one experiences the IS, then it can be explained, but once it is explained, then it is no longer Truth but an intellectual idea. I love the intellect and the world of ideas so I am not dissing you, but only pointing out that what is really Truth is beyond the intellect. Once the state of Transcendence is experienced directly, then the world of ideas falls into place. Until then, it is all conjecture. Satara
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