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Originally Posted by Gem
This one stood out to me:
...since the ignorant and simple-minded, not knowing that the world is only something seen of the mind itself, cling to the multitudiousness of external objects, cling to the notions of beings and non-being, oness and otherness, bothness and non-bothness, existence and non-existence enternity and non-eternity, and think that they have a self-nature of their own, and all of which rises from the discriminations of the mind and is perpetuated by habit-energy, and from which they are given over to false imagination. |
So what do the wise see? Do the wise who claim to see otherwise, see outside of the mind?
Is there anyone here who these words stand out to them see this outside of the mind?
It seems contradictory, ignorance is replaced by knowing but knowing could not involve the mind else it would be more ignorance.
I get it that people believe this and relate to it that way but how could one trust anything they see if this is true.
I wonder too if you lived on an island and never heard of such things if you would naturally explore this.
Just some thoughts of mine.