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Everything you see, smell, taste, touch. hear, and experience internally (thoughts, etc.) is being experienced because first you resisted or rejected it on some metaphysical level
Originally posted by Never Despise
I just had an interesting thought but I am not able to artuclate it well. But I will try.
OK, suppose we accept the concept of unity/universal oneness at a metaphysical level. If this is case, how do we explain our universe, which is full of seperate things? Put another way, how exaactly did the "one" change to become "many"?
If you are resting in a state of perfect onenness then there is no division and all things are present at once. It seems to me that to get from this state to reality as conventionally experienced, the "one" would have to block off something, agree to ignore part of itself, so to speak. But this isn't really possible since ultimate reality is one. So you get action/reaction situation...example, the One says: "XYZ is not part of the One," but then XYZ asserts itself more forcefully because it is, in fact, a part of the One. So the experience is one of XYZ being emphasized after the attempt to deny it.
Example: The One says: "The color red is not part of me, I reject it." But then the color red "rebounds" and re-asserts itself because it is a part of the One and can't ultimately be denied. This is experienced as the color red by us, as it is temporarily emphasized and stands out from the background of the unified One.
So think of it this way. Everything you see, smell, taste, touch. hear, and experience internally (thoughts, etc.) is being experienced because first you resisted or rejected it on some metaphysical level. If you are hearing country music and you hate it, you are hearing it because you rejected it somehow. If you make room for it and stop resisiting it, it goes away.
Thoughts?
Example: The One says: "The color red is not part of me, I reject it." But then the color red "rebounds" and re-asserts itself because it is a part of the One and can't ultimately be denied. This is experienced as the color red by us, as it is temporarily emphasized and stands out from the background of the unified One.
So think of it this way. Everything you see, smell, taste, touch. hear, and experience internally (thoughts, etc.) is being experienced because first you resisted or rejected it on some metaphysical level. If you are hearing country music and you hate it, you are hearing it because you rejected it somehow. If you make room for it and stop resisiting it, it goes away.
Thoughts?