Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00352)

Weel, actually I was trying to find an 'axiom' that we could all agree on
as a starting point for further extrapolation. But now I'm just confused.

Darren


At 08:13 PM 11/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>>All things that exist, all animals, all humans, the earth, the elements,
>>the cosmos, the unseen - all are one.
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>>This is not my subjective view but an axiom.
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>>Agreed or Not Agreed?
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>>Darren
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>What sort of oneness do you mean?  We all breath the same air etc. so
>because we share a common environment -- we are one?  Or we all came from a
>common source, thus are one at the root?  Or we all are the same
>substance and thus one?  Or we are varied conditions of that same shared
>substance?  Or we have one soul, but different forms?  Or some
>combination of these possibilities -- or some other one?
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>--
><> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
>  When hearing, pondering and practicing the Dharma, one's aim should be
>  first of all to subdue one's own mind.   Gyelwa Ensapa
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