> Remove all that is not true, in order to begin to apprehend the dim outlines of the truth “ And that is why, in the fundamental approach to the Godhead, both

> Remove all that is not true, in order to begin to apprehend the dim outlines of the truth “ And that is why, in the fundamental approach to the Godhead, both the Hindu and the Buddhist (and, for that matter, the Taoist) take what is called the negative approach, which used to be known long ago in the Middle Ages as Apophatic theology. As Saint Thomas Aquinas said, “To proceed to the knowledge of God it is necessary to go by the way of remotion,” of saying what God is not—since God, by his immensity, exceeds every conception to which our intellect can attain. So then, of the Godhead the Hindu says: all that can truly be said is neti neti, “not this, not this.”” ~ Alan Watts Excerpt from talk transcript (right before 19:39) https://alanwatts.org/transcripts/relevance-of-oriental-philosophy/ https://alanwatts.org/transcripts/relevance-of-oriental-phil...