WendyDarling wrote:ZOR, Did you refer to nothing as a something from which another something comes or are you agreeing with EC, that otherness cannot be self contained.
Well, within your shared paradigm, in which real existing things (souls) exist, I'd agree with EC: otherness
logically cannot be self-contained. However, standing outside that paradigm, I rather agree with
you: the only "real existing thing" (the "World Soul", if you will) is ultimately Nothing (emptiness), and
this dreams up all "
other" "real existing things" (e.g., individual souls). So for me, souls are
themselves illusions, and it's precisely this illusion of real existing thinghood (individuality) that is the one flaw of each and every "soul"!
WendyDarling wrote:You [EC] are afraid to accept perfection just like all the other fragments, including myself, so we stay here “searching” for more while actually working to avoid it.
This is very good! But there's good reason for being afraid to accept perfection. As I wrote on June 11th or 12th, 'when one is Dionysus [by which I mean the Adi-Buddha, Emptiness itself...], one's whole world is perfect: for it stands in absolute contrast to His absolute imperfection (absolute lack, absolute weakness)...'
You asked what cutting through the whole ball of yarn amounted to. Well, to return to your puzzle metaphor instead, the complete puzzle looks like my current avatar:
"The clear light or the dark light
is in fact the appearance of one's true nature, of one's true Buddha-nature, appearing just so—just as it is. It is the true face of the primordial Buddha[.]" (Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo, "P'howa, Part 4: The Appearance of the Peaceful Deities".)
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Ecmandu wrote:No. This world really is a dream world.
That's what I said. However, it's less of a dream world than the "souls" within it, or rather the latter are
more of a dream world. "This world" is not in "your" mind; "you" are in "this world" which in turn is in
the mind...
" '[T]he Dharma-Body of the Buddha' is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead." (Aldous Huxley,
The Doors of Perception.)
I know a lot about the practice of chod; it literally translates as “feeding your demons”.
Actually, it rather means "cutting through" demons (where "demon" can mean
any hindrance or obscuration of the dharmata).
Ecmandu wrote:What you need to understand about perfection is that when the Buddha breaks free of samsara, he’s a winner and everyone else is a loser ... when this happens, you’ll get sent to hell. The Buddha will be sent to hell.
Zero sum realities send every possible being to hell forever; thus my entry in the cosmos. To fix it.
No, look. You are trying to fix precisely what the Buddha has broken free of. Your whole
paradigm is samsaric! All hells and even all heavens are still in samsara. Nirvana is no heaven! The Buddha's formula is
anatta, literally "non-soul":
all souls, whether in the lowest hell realms, the highest heavens, or anywhere in between, are in samsara because samsara
is the wandering of "souls"...