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I am standing on the shoulders of giants (Eastern philosophy since Upanishads). The notion that the nature of reality (of what is) is hidden from one by the ve
by lngnmn 9y ago
I am standing on the shoulders of giants (Eastern philosophy since Upanishads).
The notion that the nature of reality (of what is) is hidden from one by the veil of ignorance (one's own and socially constructed bullshit in the first place) is an ancient one and goes back to the early Upanishadic seers and the historical Buddha.
Removing an observer (and all products of his mind which constitute the veil that obscures what is) is an ancient hack of early Buddhists, I am only re-emphasizing it.
Man is just a by-product of the Universe - a mere sub-process of nothing permanent or substantial (leave alone divine). Mental concepts are not required for the Universe (or what they call Brahman) to be and most of these concepts does not exit outside one's conditioned and conceptually infested mind.
Wrong concepts is the veil which obscures the view of what is. This is at least two millennia old philosophy of the nature of mind. Before knowing what lies outside know what lies within. There is the same facility and related social dynamics which produced gods, daemons, chakras, tantras, mantras, kundalini, mandalas, accelerating time, higher dimensions, multiple futures, parallel universes and other popular bullshit in which we are drowning.
Read some old tantras, then read some modern probabilistic modeling bullshit which they call modern science - it is all the same kind of piles of untestable socially constructed nonsense. Untestability and socially accepted dogmatism is precisely what makes it (and tantras and other religious crap) stand.
- xaedes 9y ago"Upanishads"? Interesting! Thank you for mentioning. I am currently reading Gilgamesh and there is "Uta-napišti" meaning "the far away". The Sanskrit term Upaniṣad (upa = by, ni = nether, shat =sitting) translates to "sitting down near". In Gilgamesh epos, he (Gilgamesh) travels to seek wisdom from Uta-napišti. Now I am curious if there may be a relation of the two.. I wouldn't be surprised.