Vaj wrote: > Actually there's a new crop of Neo-Buddhists who > follow very, very similar patterns that we see > in Neo-Advaita circles these daze. > New crop?
According to Guadapadacharya, the central doctrine of Adwaita is 'ajativada', that is, non-production. Nothing is produced anywhere at any time; there is no birth, no production of anything, no cause and effect. Therefore, no real objective world outside of con- sciousness. Actualy we are mistaken in our experience of things and events. We only 'seem' to see things and things only 'appear' to be real. All sensory and mental experience, with the exception of pure contentless consciousness, is illusion, just like in a dream. 22. Nothing whatever is brought into existence, whether from itself or from something else: nothing at all! Not anything existent, non-existent or both is ever orginated. Nagarjuna, the brilliant Madhyamika logician, agrees with this in his 'Four Negations'. Work cited: 'Dispelling Illusion' Gaudapada's Alatasanti By Douglas A. Fox State University of New York Press, 1993 Page 82.
