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Thursday, August 12, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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That voice which is the origin of every cry and sound: that
indeed is the
only voice, and the rest are only echoes.
~ Rumi
Along The Way
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"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you
imagine
yourself to be.?
~ Alan Watts
by Amrita Nadi on Daily Dharma
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It is only when this switch-over from the object, the situation,
to the
subject, the welcoming of it, occurs that real maturity is
possible.
Maturity does not come through accumulation of learning,
experiences,
systems, ideas, concepts. It comes when you cannot walk and have
to
leap. All your being is struck in this leap and clarity arises.
~ Jean Klein
~ ~ ~
You can feel yourself at one with the One that exists: the whole
body
becomes a mere power, a force-current; your life becomes a needle
drawn to a huge mass of a magnet and as you go deeper and deeper,
you become a mere center and then not even that, for you become a
mere consciousness, there are no thoughts or cares any longer -
they
were shattered at the threshold; in an inundation; you, a mere
straw,
you are swallowed alive, but it is very delightful, for you
become the
very thing that swallows you; this is the union of Jeeva with
Brahma,
the loss of the ego in the real Self, the destruction of
falsehood, the
attainment of truth.
~ Ramana Maharshi
by Tony Cartledge to Nonduality Highlights group on Facebook
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Nonduality America Blog
All great things must come to an end unfortunately and this post
by
Greg Goode is no exception. In case you missed Part 1, or Part 2,
we
are serializing an updated version of his book Nondualism in
Western
Philosophy, which is a series of pointers to how the Western
approach
can assist with one’s self-inquiry. It is less a historical
survey, and more
a collection of Western views that might serve as tools for
inquiry, along
with suggestions on how these tools might be used. Please enjoy
the
final post from Greg. Without further ado, here is Part 3.
The Turn Towards Language
The older monist-style idealism lost its steam early in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, partly due to the rise
of
science and mathematics. The popularity of science stimulated an
effort
in philosophy to emulate scientific styles and methods.
Importance was
given to observation, verification and language. New
philosophical
movements arose, such as “logical positivism,”
“philosophical analysis”
and “ordinary language philosophy.” These movements
examine the
relations among sentences, as well as between sentences and
states of
affairs in the world.
Philosophies that focus on language are not themselves trying to
make a
nondual or monistic metaphysical claim. Rather, they merely
critique
the claims made by metaphysics about how the world is really is,
in and
of itself. They root out the metaphysical assumptions of other
philosophies and argue that these assumptions are simply not
needed
to live life or to explain our experience.
One can attack a dualism with the weapons on hand, without
leaving
anything in its place. This is just what Royce, Wittgenstein,
Quine,
Sellars, and Colin Turbayne did – they gave the new focus on
language
a startlingly broad application. The result was to soften, blur
or eradicate
the old Cartesian and Kantian dualities that had occupied center
stage
for three hundred years...
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