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Originally Posted by Nimetic
Gahh... The problem with Buddhism/Taosim sometimes seems to be that they'd explain the operation of a car by turning it off and throwing away the key. Stop thinking - and there is no longer a question.
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The point is that the ultimate Reality can not be understood using mind. It is beyond mind.
If mind would be the highest possible means for us to use we would have to stop at agnosticism.
However, as mytics have described for thousands of years mind is
not our ultimate instrument. Not only do they say there is a greater consciousness than mind, this consciousness is accessible to us.
Speculating and reasoning about such a higher consciousness does not take us anywhere, we need to enter it and live in it.
In the East this is normal knowledge, but in the West (as can also be seen in this thread) reason reigns; going even so far as to test spiritual experience using reason to test its validity.
We can not think out reality. The intellect can only show us at best partial and conflicting aspects of the manifestation we see around us. It will never give us the
whole.
Mere attraction to some religious of spiritual
ideas also will not give us knowledge of the Reality Beyond.
(Dabbling in) reasoning we can all do from our easy chairs, but to reach this greater consciousness requires long hard work.
Many have tried and attained. Lets not ignore them, but listen to what they have to say and not dismiss their experiences
a priori because they overreach reason.