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Originally Posted by blossomingtree
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Don't goals require imagination?
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It is spiritual fast food - instant enlightenment, achievement and adherence to all I am, hoping that there is nothing else and vehemently defending the position that there might be
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There immediacy in realisation, but it's a subtle, nuanced subject.
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Neo-Advaita, which I've learnt about this week, takes what is true and corrupts it by believing it to be true. It is like a meal I heard about, it is sumptuous, and so without having eaten it, I claim it is sumptuous. As I have heard those whom have eaten tell it, so I retell it, now imagining I am satiated - and telling others the same.
It's fine though ultimately. That's the beauty of free will
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I guess it's corrupt in the same way as any other belief system.
I might have a look at that later.