On 3/2/2014 12:26 PM, Share Long wrote:
Richard, I still wish you would say more about what is meant by
suffering being caused by the superimposition of the material onto the
non material.
>
The "superimposition" doctrine is the cornerstone of Shankara's Advaita
Vedanta. Shankaracharya explains the genesis of ignorance and our
perception of the plurality of things in terms of superimposition, what
Maharishi called "identification". The classic example is the rope-snake
metaphor: In the night you see a snake; in the light of day you realize
what you thought was a snake was but a coiled-up rope. The perception of
a plurality of things, where there is only one thing, is a
superimposition; the analogy of the "space in the pot" - the point being
that there is only one space inside or outside a pot. This is only a
superimposition to think that it is a "pot" with different spaces inside
or out.
Read more:
'A Companion Encyclopedia of Asia Philosophy'
By Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam
Routledge, 1997
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:15 PM, Richard J. Williams
<pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/18/2014 6:47 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Avert the danger before it arises!
>
"pains 2 avoid
"What is to be avoided is suffering that has not yet come." - Yoga Sutra
2.16
It's a little easier to understand when you read the YS in context: 2:15
- Everything is suffering for the wise man because of change, stress,
and anxiety. 2:17 - The cause of the suffering is the super-imposition
of the material onto the immaterial.
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