Just yesterday I saw an example of the subject you raise today in a video of a yoga teacher, whose channel is usually very valuable if you are interested in the particular type of yoga he (and myself) is a practitioner.
To my unpleasant surprise, both he and his guests agreed that we can' t know with certainty what the awakened who gave form to old traditions (he particularly spoke about Samkhya) really meant, and that it could all be metaphorical, so we should adapt their words and enrich them with nowadays' notions of Science and Art (!!).
It didn't hurt me, but it was sad to watch such ceremony, not just of personal ignorance, but of active promotion of ignorance by watering down the knowledge and intentions of those who awakened in the past and created a corpus to help others awaken.
Yes, the materialistic paradigms of science and art will only get us so far. We need to unlock our full potential by opening our heart and mind to what cannot be conceptualized or reified in any way. Rather than starting with the arbitrary assumption that everything is materially solid and unchanging, we can apply ourselves by discovering this great illusion of our daily lives. Start with the illusion and you will go very quickly beyond where science is capable of going at this time.
If we look at matter, if we look directly, we see that it never stays the same from one moment to another. It is like an illusion or a dream. We can also see that there is no ultimately unchanging particle anywhere at any time. Science can show us the basis of an illusion; however, we need to actually see what science is revealing, rather than assuming that there is an object, or a subject for that matter. Very few scientists accept such findings, dismissing them at once as lunatic fringe material.
Buddha Shakyamuni talked about going beyond not as a metaphor, but as where you will discover who you really are. It's up to you to discover and to never take anyone's word for anything. The Buddha said we should question even His words very carefully and think for ourselves. We can't discover Ultimate Reality unless we investigate all that appears very carefully for ourselves. If we do that, in time we will awaken.
Thank you, Robert.
Just yesterday I saw an example of the subject you raise today in a video of a yoga teacher, whose channel is usually very valuable if you are interested in the particular type of yoga he (and myself) is a practitioner.
To my unpleasant surprise, both he and his guests agreed that we can' t know with certainty what the awakened who gave form to old traditions (he particularly spoke about Samkhya) really meant, and that it could all be metaphorical, so we should adapt their words and enrich them with nowadays' notions of Science and Art (!!).
It didn't hurt me, but it was sad to watch such ceremony, not just of personal ignorance, but of active promotion of ignorance by watering down the knowledge and intentions of those who awakened in the past and created a corpus to help others awaken.
Yes, the materialistic paradigms of science and art will only get us so far. We need to unlock our full potential by opening our heart and mind to what cannot be conceptualized or reified in any way. Rather than starting with the arbitrary assumption that everything is materially solid and unchanging, we can apply ourselves by discovering this great illusion of our daily lives. Start with the illusion and you will go very quickly beyond where science is capable of going at this time.
If we look at matter, if we look directly, we see that it never stays the same from one moment to another. It is like an illusion or a dream. We can also see that there is no ultimately unchanging particle anywhere at any time. Science can show us the basis of an illusion; however, we need to actually see what science is revealing, rather than assuming that there is an object, or a subject for that matter. Very few scientists accept such findings, dismissing them at once as lunatic fringe material.
Buddha Shakyamuni talked about going beyond not as a metaphor, but as where you will discover who you really are. It's up to you to discover and to never take anyone's word for anything. The Buddha said we should question even His words very carefully and think for ourselves. We can't discover Ultimate Reality unless we investigate all that appears very carefully for ourselves. If we do that, in time we will awaken.