Reality 07
How can the previous "theoretical"
underpinning be parlayed into pragmatic spiritual practice? Well, some may skip the next step, after
finding it too difficult. But making
some headway here is of an estimable value.
The point being: the World, the Universe is not real. We mentioned that only Sense–perception thoughts are actually
directly experienced, with no proof that there are all the objects of the Universe
that they pretend to perceive.
The analogy of the Dream was
briefly introduced, & will appear again here from time to time. Finally the structure of the Mind, even in
some mathematical terms, was initially explored. The Mind tends to be felt as some kind of vast,
empty "Container Space". The
false Ego–self is felt to be the
center Origin for the Space if the Mind.
For the stream of thought, the Mind is a 1–D Number
Line, like Time or the sequence of Sound.
For the Imagination, there can be there can seem to be a 2–D Screen of the Mind, or a 3–D Theater of the Mind. In whatever Dimension, the empty Container
Space has each object or Point in it referenced to the central Origin. Each Point has meaning only in terms of that Reference
Origin. So for all of the supposed Perceivers
of the Universe, there is a uniquely different Universe that each perceives,
being only the referenced Sense–perception
thoughts, differing for each Ego Reference.
And then there is the similarity between this empty Space – central Origin scheme seen, seen not
only in 1–D Mind, but also in 1–D Time & Sound. In 1–D,
Now takes the form of the Ego for the central Reference Origin in Time. It is Here that takes the central Reference
Origin in or Ego form for the 2–D
Screen of the Mind, the 3–D Theater
of the Mind, & 3–D Physical Space.
And again, the Body takes the extended Reference Origin
position as the center of our own World, our own perceived Universe. The value in seeing through the apparent "reality"
of the World is that it is in the World that we erroneously look for our Identity
which is actually only pure Existence. It is in a World that we look for Reality which
is actually just pure Consciousness. It
is in the World that we look for our Bliss, our Happiness, our Love.
As a repository for Identity–Existence, Reality–Consciousness,
& Bliss–Happiness–Love, the World as an external supposed
Source that can never deliver. Happiness
is the very nature of the Absolute Self, Atman
which is Brahman, The Absolute. To remove one's seemingly fundamental belief
in a World, a Universe, is to remove the objects of Attachment & false
seeking of Happiness, or its loss as Suffering & Aversion.
Likewise, for Reality & Identity in that World. For those who put off this Discrimination
& Detachment, they may instead see the "World" as an aspect of
God with Form, while remaining devoted to Brahman,
God without form. But to dispense with
the World is cleaner and more direct.
So it is, that in this installment we look a little further
into the denial of the World, as a an initial pragmatic spiritual practice. Ultimately we want to explore the Ego–Me & find it to be nonexistent,
thereby discovering instead the true Absolute Self, Atman–Brahman.
But seeing past the World removes the underpinning of binding &
blinding Attachment, & is a good beginning for true spiritual Discrimination
of the unreal from the Real.
The world is also that which is the host or home of the
material Body. Those trillions of
separate cells that somehow coordinate to provide one active character, one
apparently thinking Brain, that Body, to be further discussed as we proceed, is
– this is fundamentally part of the World.
But how can all those trillions of cells somehow coordinate
to be one body, with quadrillion's of neural connections that serve as a Mind that
can think. As we will so often say, one is "not the Body." One beginning for this realization, is that
there is no World, no Universe.
Not only is the Body made up of quadrillion's of neural
connections among trillions of cells, but across the Universe, at least the Relativity–limited, only knowable Universe, is said to be made up of 1080 quantum particles that go into the makeup of Plasma, Atoms, Molecules,
Stars, & Planets.
But between each Atom there is a empty Void of Space, Parmenides, Zeno, & Melissus, the Eleatic
Greek philosophers Sages argued at length against the impossibility of Void "nothingness". For "nothingness" is not "some
thing". They argued against the
contradictions in an empty Gap or Void between atoms. In fact within Space or within any conceived Continuum, the Gap between 2 discrete
entities A & B is neither A nor B, nor anything else. The Gap simply does not exist. This does not argue against Continuum as much as it argues against
its opposite Discrete Spectrum, for
Analog against Digital, for Relativity against Quantum Mechanics.
We further know that the Atom itself is largely empty. If it were the size of a Sports Stadium,
almost all the Mass would be in a Nucleus which would be a tiny Grain of sand
in the middle of the field. If that Grain
of sand, that Nucleus, were it is itself a Sports Stadium, then that the Mass contributing
quarks that make up each a Nucleon would
themselves only be tiny grains of sand in each Nucleon – Sports Stadium.
Atoms are so tiny & so numerous that if the entire Earth
were carved out hollow & stuffed to the brim with Grapes, the hollow Earth would
hold as many Grapes as we gaze upon the thumb of one hand. With all of the emptiness & all of these
impossible Void Gaps, the objective Universe
is not plausible, never mind the suspicious Container Space – Origin structure so often repeated, &
never mind the Ego– referenced Perceptual
thoughts which are all that we seem to experience.
And taking any quark
or quantum particle, we cannot assume it is a "solid" thing anyway,
emptiness aside. The Quantum Mechanical
Wave Function that describes the concentrated Energy known as Matter does
itself only consist only as "Probability Amplitudes" in an unreal
realm of what Aristotle called a Realm of Potentia.
Only when observed by Consciousness, according to the
original Copenhagen Convention in Quantum Mechanics, only then for a moment of Observation
does the Wave Function "collapse", & only then does the Quantum take
on momentary material "existence", seemingly. So Matter is only abstract Probability
Amplitude in an unknown, unreal Realm of Potentia,
becoming so-called "real" only instantaneously, during conscious Perception.
Within the vast empty Space containing Matter are the
impossible Void Gaps. Whatever could "be" in aside from that Void Gap
is only known as a referenced Sense–perception,
and all that is just as a Dream known only in the Mind of the seeming dreamer.
Or else, seeing the World as God–with–Form, we can proceed to the next spiritual step as, as we do in
the next installment, by looking at the Body that houses the Sense organs that
presumably capture in Sense–perception,
(but only in thought), the objects of
the Universe. Aside from the individual Reference
Origin, different for each apparent Observer, we will further explore the
implausible Identity of the Experiencer of the Waking State
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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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