Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00015)

Dallas wrote:
>
>Since thinking involves the whole of man's perceptions, no aspect
>of life, memory or anticipation is devoid of this faculty IN
>ACTION.  It is the power to perceive,  It is the Self-identifying
>feeling of Ego-ship.
>Descartes said is succinctly: "I think, therefore I am."
>
>Does this help ?
>

>From the Commentary on the Bardo Thodrol:

"....This introduces the ultimate reality of nirvana, the Great Perfection,
the Truth realm, the final freedom, the evolutionary perfection of
Buddhahood. This realisation is the aim of all the teachings of the Book of
Natural Liberation. It is accessible in principle because it is already the
deepest reality of the present, the actual condition of even the most
ordinary. You must look 'nakedly' at yourself, reversing the aim of seeing
back upon itself. You look for that fixed, independent, isolated self that
feels like the kernel within you, out of which your drives and thoughts
emerge. But when you turn 180 degrees to look within the looking, you find
nothing that has intrinsic status, nothing standing independent in its own
right.
	Even Descartes found that too: he found that he could find nothing at the
point of origin of thought. He erroneously asserted that it was because a
subject could not be an object. And he then went wild and said that this
subject, this one thing he could not find,  demonstrate, establish in any
way, was the one thing he could be foundationally certain of! He could
doubt everything, but he could not doubt that he doubted! So; I think,
therefore I am. Only the laziest Buddhist philosopher would make such a
statement"

Dallas, you're not lazy are you?

Regards

Darren

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