E.A. Poe said that life is a dream within a dream. I agree with this statement, and I connect it to religious knowledge I've experienced-- both Buddhist, my own experience, as well as studying and worshiping God. In Buddhism, there is understood to be such a phenomenon as enlightenment, and supreme enlightenment. An enlightening being does not have any deluded views, and also sees truth. George Harrison explained that every soul is potentially divine.
So what does all this mean? What is reality, and is there something spiritual, a spiritual nature beyond the senses?
Life is a mystery, but also there is order. I understand that life can be understood, sometimes in ways we would not expect. I consider deja vu to be like this; in actuality it is not the mind tricking itself, but it is a glimpse of something real-- knowledge that is unexplainable; the memory of something that is unexplainable. If we walk outside, and we feel it is cold, we do not doubt that it is actually cold-- and deja vu is like this, I feel it as plainly clearly as anything, and so though I do not know all that it means, I do not doubt its validity as a sensation.
There is an idea in Buddhism that the entire universe is reflected in the smallest atom. This would seem to indicate that if we looked at an atom, if we could understand, which seems impossible, then we could see the universe in reflection. The universe is a complete whole: every part of it is also a complete whole. Every person is whole: the world is whole: any closed system is whole. If a person lived a simple life, in a one room house, by themselves, as a sage or mystic, then they could unravel the whole universe there, by theirself.
E.A. Poe said that life is a dream, and this is echoed in the Buddhist religion, which says with conviction that all phenomena are illusion. This can be understood by way of the mystic, of the sage; who is fixed in transcendence, who with half-closed eyes finds himself split between boundaries: between normal sense perception and consciousness, and divine consciousness, between normal consciousness and divine light, filtering in. Such a sage has realized God, has realized that this life is God; that this life and world is a complete whole, nothing needing to be added, nothing subtracted-- perfect as it is.
Spiritual consciousness or divine consciousness is like this; one becomes perfect. This simply includes serenity and compassion, as well as spiritualized energy and happiness and joy. Knowledge of the self comes from meditation and action in consciousness of the self. The self is unlimited, and so the realizations are unlimited.
As to the dream, to reality; reality is invisible; the ultimate truth is beyond our senses. Hardly one in a million lives a perfected life, and one out of thousands of those perfected understand the ultimate truth. The sage in divine consciousness, however, can see thousands of years into the future, thousands of years into the past, simply by understanding the present in full. Simply by realizing his own divine nature, the self finds answers to the questions of life.
The path to self-realization is a long one. Meditation does not produce instant results. But the ultimate result is entirely possible. The truth is attainable, it is only blocked because we give up, we stop seeking it. If a person sees a bit of truth, and then tries to tell people of it, then they simply subject themselves to an impossible task-- because the truth is inconceivable to normal sense-perception consciousness. So the truth is there, it is beyond the reach of the sages; although there are thousands of partially enlightened persons who have contributed to this knowledge, who can help along the way. Each of these sages is an interpreter; none have a claim on the truth which is universal, but in everything, there is some element or grain of truth, even if it is only truth's opposite. There can be nothing further than truth than it's opposite-- we cannot go below that; so there is only truth at the highest point, and untruth at the lowest. Everything in between is partly true and partly false...as Pascal said.
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Originally Posted by NikolaiI
