On 5/20/2014 9:53 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
I go with: consciousness exists. Which leads me to think that whatever
seems to exist, I assume it too is consciousness.
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Addressing the important issues!
The philosopher Rene Descartes put forth a famous theory - "/I think,
therefore I am./" Descartes was a dualist who believed that the mind was
separate from the body. However, long before Rene Descarte the ancient
Buddhists and Hindus had already formulated the notion of non-duality
mentioned in the Upanishads - the notion that /consciousness itself was
the ultimate reality/ and that it was /one, not two/. In India they call
this the "/Consciousness Only School/", ascribed to by the Adi Shankara
and Arya Asanga. According to the Mahayana Sutra Lankara:
/"Pure consciousness is the only Reality. By its nature, it is
Self-luminous." (XIII, 13). "Thus shaking off duality, he directly
perceives the Absolute which is the unity underlying phenomena
(dharmadatu)."/ (VI, 7) Sharma, p. 112-113
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