Aphorisms and Interludes
If everything is holy, then nothing is holy.
If everything is an illusion, then nothing is an illusion.
Without its opposite, nothing can be.
Everything changes while staying the same.
If everything is an illusion, then nothing is an illusion.
Without its opposite, nothing can be.
Everything changes while staying the same.
posted by B. Spinoza at 11:02 PM
4 Comments:
We live in a world of duality: Good vs Evil, light vs dark etc. Yet one cannot be appreciated without its contrast to the other. When I was younger and first really appreciated this concept (and was more religious at the time), the first thing that came to mind was perhaps this is why on friday night we say the partial biblical sentence of 'Yom haShishee'(=Friday) and then say the Shabbat kiddush. We could never appreciate a holy day,one of rest etc without contrasting it to the rest of the ordinary/mundane week.
smoo,
nice vort.
In contrast, Shabtai Tzvi violated the Torah because he felt that the only way to appreciate the good was by immersing himself in bad. That was his explanation, anyways
Fred,
that would be a high level indeed if we can perceive the world without duality. I believe that is the goal of the mystics, to view reality as a unity without duality. From human experience I don't know if it's possible (or even something good to aspire to), but let me know if you have any luck with that
>Free will, as I understand it, is a function of being able to make a decision not based purely on inputs (in this case negative templates) but on also what is in essense your being
Free will, as you understand it, is a myth that I don't believe in
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