Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00230)

Hi Dallas,

The below merely proves that you haven't really studied sunnyata from
a Buddhist point of view. The term sunnyata is translated as
void(ness) or emptiness, but it is a technical philosophical term that
one gets a feel for at some point. To take it literally is to miss the
point totally. [Pedro: you obviously did study it, we come to
different preliminary conclusions about the meaning of the term, but
that is only natural. I'm pretty sure I don't fully understand anyhow.]

As to maya - the illusionary nature of everyday reality is quite
central of HPB's thought. At least one of the ways she means that is
in that everything (including our personality) is temporary. The way I
am today is different (though perhaps only slightly) from the way I
was yesterday. My sense of continuity is to a large extent
illusionary. This computer I use to type this message is temporary -
it will be outdated in ten years time (if not earlier). 

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@e...>
wrote:
> July 17 2004
> 
> Dear K H
> 
> May I offer for consideration?
> 
> In such a matter does not the comparative positions imply a third, a
> superior one which is able to see both and decide with impartiality ?
> 
> If there is in our Universe LAW, then selection would point to that
which
> harmonizes? Or am I wrong?
> 
> Interdependence is then perceived. It is the one all-inclusive
nature of
> evolution and of the ex-istence of all forms. It also pre-supposes that
> each of such "forms" is energized by its own eternal Power -- a MONAD
> (using the Theosophical definition).
> 
> The concept of "voidness" merely says that if one removes an object to
> another position, the SPACE it occupied, as an ALWAYS EXISTENT, as a
> constant, does not change as it is always there, whether occupied
or not.
> 
> Our present day Science deals with the measurement of objective
materials.
> But there are substances that its physical plane instruments cannot yet
> measure. 
> 
> Our minds however are not limit matter alone, so they transcend the
self-
> made limits of Science. They ask, for instance "Why" is this? 
Likewise,
> there are forces and energies that are not based on "substance /
matter."
> 
> Those who are self-limited to matter and forms, may speak of those
as "Maya.
> " And they would be right from their limited point of view. 
> 
> But this, it seems to me, then brings us to the Source of any
"thing," any
> "form." It is the pursuit by us using our minds of the ultimate cause. 
> 
> And that is what we only "see" of its existence is a deduction -- a
mental
> concept, nebulous though it may be, of the various kinds of effects it
> imposes on substances that are at one or other of the seven stages of
> development.
> 
> Dallas
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