Richard, thank you so much. This is such a rich explanation. I appreciate how
you not only use the old snake and rope analogy, but also the pot analogy which
I've never heard. Also wonderful is how you make the discernment between
identification and superimposition. Thanks again for taking the time to explain
this so well. Superimposition is such a, dare I say, layered word and I'd never
heard it used this way before.
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 10:39 PM, Richard J. Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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.
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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
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>On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:15 PM, Richard J. Williams
><pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>On 2/18/2014 6:47 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Avert the danger before it arises!
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>"pains 2 avoid
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>"What is to be avoided is suffering that has
not yet come." - Yoga Sutra
>2.16
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>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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