Avayaktam, as always the problem here is a matter of semantics. Call it Brahman or God or call it none of it, and man, I guess the very fact of naming it, is what makes the squirrel scurry away once more.
I agree wholeheartedly however that the "Baxter predicament" might lead to self-destruction through the very things one fights against. It's basically a lack of trust too profound, as opposed to the naivety we're discussing here.
Yet again there is a balance to be found. What tools does man even have left for discernment?
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Originally Posted by EpiphaMe
QUOTE: "But still, as there is no thinker behind the thoughts, how do you come up with a really new idea?"
I would like that expounded upon please... as I've missed something about this along my journey. I see that the real essential 'me' is not my thoughts, but the witness of them... is that close to what you mean?
thank you. I'm so tired, full day, just need the above quote clarified.
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EpiphaMe, this was a quote uttered, I do not remember by who but it was on Avalon (at least my conception of it). It's become one of the truest concepts for me, that all my thoughts seem to be merely more memes that I attract through my attitude.
The question is, I guess, not who's thinking, but why.... or rather, why does there need to be an entity that thinks? I have the feeling that our horizon is clogged full of thoughts and concepts that the more rare ones, possibly the more valuable ones at that, are beyond our reach.
I do not know if there is a finite or infinite amount of thoughts. But there surely seems to be those that are more remote, suppressed and thus almost non-existent.