Tom Hickey answers this question in great detail in a book I've been proofreading. ONLY ONE IS is the core truth of almost every wisdom tradition. But as TomT says only YOU can experience it. Tom HIckey is a very clear philosopher who has also experienced that nondualistic state and as clearly as is possible is presenting an argument or explanation for those still stuck in dualism. The book is now called Reframing Christianity. (Previously was Periennial Philosophy & the Gospel of Thomas..... as the Gospel of Thomas is the clearest thing in Jesus literature that advocated nonduaiism.)
Philosophers basically study FRAMES. Tom shows all the differerent factors that have lead normative Chistians to frame Jesus into the Christian tradition. In arguing that Jesus was really teaching the basic core universal truths, Vedanta, Sufism, Kabbalah etc. It will be available for $10 electronically as soon as Janet can index it in WORD & get it into a nice pdf & I'm sure of interest to a few of you here. It's a huge 550 pages & should probably be 3 different books but am happy to have it coming out soon. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy writes: snipped > The thing about Brahman, as Ken Wilber points > out, is that It is "One without a second," One > without an opposite. If you say It is X, that > means It is not not-X, which gives not-X an > existence independent of Brahman; it gives > Brahman an opposite, a second. > > TomT: > Brahman is that in which both the Absolute and the Relative coexist > and that which knows that is you. You are the glue that can know that > both can exist and you are the only way that both can be know at the > same time. That is why it is called the ultimate paradox. on the one > hand is the relative (actually) and on the other hand is the absolute > (actually). That which is the only thing that can know both of them as > the singularity that is one without a second is you. Enjoy Tom >
