Reality 05
In previously describing the apparent split from Non-Duality
to Duality, from Brahman–Atman
to aham–idam, Me–This, the Western technical term "boot–strapping" was introduced, as
well as a link to one of the meanings of the Buddhist term Dependent
Origination.
While no particular expertise in Buddhism is claimed here, Dependent
Origination is used in a number of ways.
Even in Hinduism there are many schools including Vedanta. Within Vedanta there is a number of schools
including Advaita Vedanta. Within Advaita
Vedanta there are number of gradations, including the position represented
here which is Ajata Vada Advaita Vedanta,
the No– Creation school
of Non-Dual Reality
In any case, one application of the term Dependent
Origination describes perception as a bootstrapping of mutually self–generating terms or stages between Object
& Subject. The Object is seen to be within
Independent Origination with & in a certain sense, the other side of the "coin"
of the Object–Form, by whatever Sense–Form is indicated.
Form itself the 1st
of the skandhas in this particular
scheme of Dependent Origination. Form is
in mutual interdependence & in fact identity as one side of the "coin"
for which other is Sense–Perception. The 2nd
skandha, Sense–perception is in turn the other side of the "coin" for
the 3rd skandha Specification or discrimination
of specific characteristics, as in a Species.
The 4th skandha, the other side of Species is Genus,
or generalization, the setting of a Species in its category of objects.
Finally independent origination with Generalization &
the foregoing skandhas is the 5th skandha, Cognition which in, which in turn is in Dependent
Origination with Subject. So Subject & Object are themselves in Dependent
Origination with each other, self–generating,
boot–strapping, like aham–idam, Me–This.
Whether from one skandha
to the other or cross all those skandhas
from Subject to Object, distinctions are only apparent. Each one of any given pair nearby, or distant,
is only the flip side of the other as in the Heads & Tails of a "coin". Moving from this particular interpretation of
one in Buddhism, we do well to look at an analogy used by Bhagavan Sri Ramana
Maharshi within Hinduism, or Tamil Shaiva
Siddhanta, namely a Ajata Vada Advaita
Vedanta, or Non-Dual Shaivism. The analogy in question is that of they "Uninvited
Guest at the Wedding Feast".
A multi-day wedding feast bringing together 2 large
families, experiences the intrusion of a stranger known to neither family. But stranger cleverly acts so familiar with
one family that the other family thinks he must be their guest. That other family in turn treats him well,
thereby giving the erroneous impression that this uninvited guest is a known to
their actual family.
And so each family is mistaken, assuming the "guest"
to be connected with the other family, when actually he is unknown to both of
them. When someone finally gets
suspicious & inquires into his identity, [like inquiring into the identity
of the Ego in Atma Vichara, Self–Investigation or Self–Inquiry], the stranger, like the Ego vanishes. This is the point of Sri Ramana's
analogy.
At the same time the erroneous relationship, mutually boot–strapping from one false assumption to
another, is a fairly good analogy for Dependent Origination, boot–strapping, the split from Non-Duality
into Duality, where neither term has standing on its own, neither has reality
of its own.
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"There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage,
no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who
has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth." – the
"no creation" school of Gaudapada Nome
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