--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Direct perception and innocence are the keys here. Not > intepretation or conclusion or imposition. Just as > images of the universe from the Hubble space telescope > are the result of innocence and direct perception, so > is it possible to have such descriptions of our inner > universe. And just as the Hubble had to be launched > into space in order to produce its images free from the > distortions of earth's atmosphere, so must we travel > deeply into inner space to have direct and profound > experiences, beyond a sense of silence, or a moment of > peace, to the direct and unvarnished universe within, > as vast and infinite as anything seen through Hubble.
Your choice of metaphor is interesting, Jim. Do you remember the *history* of the Hubble telescope. It was delivered into orbit with astigmatism, its main mirror suffering from spherical aberration such that its perceptions of the universe were useless. It took a service mission to correct the problem so that the photos it took had anything whatsoever to do with reality. You speak of "traveling into inner space" to have "unvarnished" experiences, free of "intepretation or conclusion or imposition." Do you feel that your experiences are of this variety? To come back to a simple point, the importance of which you still have not gotten, when you declared that Buddha believed that "God is love," was that an "unvarnished" experience, free of "intepretation or conclusion or imposition," or could it possibly be a limited self imposing its belief in God upon someone whose whole philosophy of life was founded upon not acknowledging the *existence* of such a God? I'm suggesting that your mirror is as abnormal as any other, and that its reflections of the universe are as distorted as anyone else's. Can you accept that, in...dare I use the term...humility, or do you hold that your perceptions reflect some kind of "truth?" Just curious...
