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On the primrose path to peace |
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George Clark, October 2000 |
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| The reality which can be described is not the real reality. There is only spin from human minds. And all human minds are erratically conditioned by time, place and parents and so are chaotic, jumbled and trippling with inconsistencies. Pose value and spin, even when perpetrated with integrity, is all there is. Or is it? |
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What about the absolute and the eternal? Some matters cannot be rationally and mechanically ‘known’ but can be ‘sensed’ by the spiritually mature. Those who insist on only one way of knowing are blinded by knowing in only one way. Those who only know are merely rational. Those who sense that which lies beyond mere knowing are supra-rational. | ||||||||
Question:When is it rational to be merely rational? |
Answer:On most occasions when engaged with the detailed working of real machines ie on those happy occasions when responses to stimuli are totally predictable |
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Question:When is it rational to be supra-rational? |
Answer:On all occasions when living things (including people) are involved ie on any occasion when the second response to a given stimulus is likely to be different from the first. |
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For most of the 20th century the conventional wisdom of the dominant group (cowdung) was rational reductionism analogous to a clockwork machine. In the 21st century the brilliant, universally legitimate, standardized, ICT enhanced, truth (bullshit) seems set to be supra-rational, holism analogous to a self regulating, complex ecosystem. Underlying the past cowdung and future bullshit is the popular reality intuitively mirroring reactions to sensory experience (primrose). But, at all times, the so-called ‘intuitive’ aspects of the primroses will be radically conditioned by the cowdung and bullshit from which they emerge. Why should this be? |
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The planet congealed 5 billion years ago. Hominids appeared 3 ½ million years ago but did not engage in conversation till about 75,000 years ago. Language is as yet a speechless babe. Informed opinion has yet to gel as to its significance. It is clear, however, that language makes reality rather than the reverse. We each live in a world created by the vocabulary and dialect which we learn. Eskimos have 18 words for snow and who but a Doric speaker could point to the locality’s feel gype? So spin is the only option? Yes and No. Yes amongst the cowdung and primroses of yesteryear. No, at least potentially, amongst the bullshit and primroses of tomorrow. The latter depends on the growth and diffusion of mind sets attuned to perfectly emancipated and carefree existence (peace). |
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You are not what you have been programmed to believe you are. You are/are not what you think. Veils of language prevent you appreciating that you are everything and everything is you. You have the freedom to think (sense) that the linguistic illusion of an individuated ego rests mirage-like on the dynamic flux of interpenetrating oneness. Such sensing brings the peace which passes all understanding; the peace known throughout history to that virile minority of existential entrepreneurs known as mystics – the ‘fools for God’, the ‘Taoist simpletons’, the ‘real people’. |
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How can the mind be changed?Take time to avoid external distractions. For five minutes each day just sit. Notice what you notice when there is no ‘thing’ to notice. Be still and know the fearless equanimity of being. Peace will appear like second teeth. |
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