Friday, November 09, 2007

Illuminating the Void

I am rereading The End of Suffering by Russel Targ and JJ Hurtak. A couple points have become much clearer. We have heard some say that life is an illusion. Reality is a void. People, places, processes have no meaning. It would be more helpful to many of us if the end of that sentence were to read - except the meaning we give it. People, places, processes have no meaning except the meaning we bring to them.

The second idea helps me with the longstanding challenge of duality. We think we understand right and wrong. Yes and no. Good and evil. Black and white. Red and blue. I've been beginning to feel that both is more often the workable premise. Lilac, lavendar, purple, aubergine, and other combinations of red and blue are more often the case. Some of both.

Targ and Hurtak say that the second buddha proposed a forth pole of logic. Yes. No. Both. Neither. Getting to Both took a little work. Getting to Neither, while at first appearing to be a huge problem, becomes so much simpler when we realize that any answer to the question comes in the form of one abstraction or another. It is meaningless except for the meaning we bring to it. Neither is easy.

~ I knew that. ~

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