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Feb 24, 2001 05:26 PM
by dalval14
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February 24, 2001 Dear
Friend: Thanks I had not heard that “fool” was
directed in the Orient specifically to the “PERSONALITY” Perhaps in
the DHAMMAPADA (5th canto) “Fool” is used to indicate the difference between a wise
man and a thoughtless one. But
your surmise may be quite correct.
Indeed the
“personality” can be a dangerous “fool” to many of us if it persists in
deluding us as to the real goal of life. As to
darkness and light: seems tome
someone has to be able to see and distinguish between the two, Then there has
to be a source of light, Then there has to be some kind of screen on which
light falls so that it shows up as dim/light and the thousands of colors. But, finally how can any science or
wisdom be obtained from the simile ?
Where to use it? But why
was light originated? What use is
“darkness?” Why is an intermediate
illumination needed? Might one
not observe that our Earth’s proximity to the Sun has caused the sensitive
receptors in our eyes to become less able to see in what we call darkness? About a
year or so ago astronomers using the Hubble telescope on a very minute section
of the firmament near the North Polar segment, discovered the area to be paved
with thousands of suns and galaxies hitherto not suspected. This
pushed back the supposed limits of the Universe to some 50 billion light-years
-- a distance inconceivable and inexpressible. This leads me to speculate that
we could view our present UNIVERSE as a vast SUN, and we lodged in some area
inside, are not able to see this marvelous surrounding sun because we are
blinded by our own SUN. We
need a physical instrument to make this clear to us. Perhaps
this has something to do with the idea that we are at the “CENTER” of our own
perceptible UNIVERSE ? What the
true CENTER of the UNIVERSE, THE CENTRAL SPIRITUAL SUN may be, is something different; and probably relates to the idea of “the
center that is everywhere, and the circumference which is nowhere.” One might also look at the statement made
that each MONAD mirrors every other Monad, and wonder if this vast integration
is not well within our comprehension once that we have purified and perfected
our personality? In fact do
we not have an analogy at hand?
The way in which our physical body is controlled and responded to bythe
central intelligence that we are seems to indicate that for each department
there is as corresponding CENTER which processes maintenance and only when an
event exceeds that capacity is it relayed to the human Mind for adjustment and
response? How would a cell or an
atom in our bodies view the central MIND-INTELLIGENCE that is ours -- if ithad
the capacity to do so on the same level we (as a human mind) casually employ? Is it
possible that we actually live INSIDE the truth of all TRUTHS and fail to see
it clearly because we are blinded by our own personal ideas ? I recall
many years ago an article entitled WE LIVE IN THE SUN. This might be a clue. Best
wishes, Dallas ================== Best
wishes, Dallas ========================== -----Original Message----- In many ancient Asiatic writings the
"fool" is a term that is used quite |