Saturday 1:50 p.m.
I've got half an hour while the bread is in the oven.
Why has everyone got three stages, like stages of creation?
Hindus?: Causal, Astral, Physical.
Kafflicks: God the Father, The Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ.
Tibetans: Dharmakaya, Shambokakaya, Nirmanakaya.
In some ways these seem to be talking about the same thing maybe. Dharmakaya might be described as clear light mind by the Tibetans.
'When we can see, straightforwardly and non-conceptually, the nature of our clear light mind and remain totally absorbed in this nature without ever regressing from it, we have become a buddha.' Dalai Lama. The Wall.
Tibetans don't really talk about God. They talk about mind. Mind is characterised by three things. It is without characteristics, being without centre or circumference. It has some quality of knowing. It is unconfined, like space. Space allows everything to be in it, sort of.
Without centre or circumference. Hmmm?
This universe is supposed to have started with a Big Bang which proceeded from a point without a circumference. I suppose that's just a handy way of saying there were no dimensions, or time, or whatever before the Big Bang.
A point without a circumference sounds to moi a bit like something without a centre or a circumference, something perhaps beyond conceptualisation, something without characteristics.
Mr Higgs apparently lives in Edinburgh. What a wonderful city this is! Mr Higgs's problem was that although a stone has weight ... you can tell this by dropping it on your foot ... the atoms that make up the stone are composed of wee bits that are weightless. So where is the weight coming from? A fung of a lot of money is being spent right now trying to find out if Mr Higgs's particle, the one that's causing the weight, actually exists of not.
Anyway, are these scientific atheistical folk and everyone else not essentially talking about the same thing? You have the limitless thingy beyond concepts, the energy and then you and me and stones.
What's the difference between a bison and an elephant, Jack? You can wash yourself in a bison, but you can't wash yourself in an elephant. Back to the lobby!
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7 comments:
Would this be the Higgs-Bosun particle? I never met one myself, but mebbe it exists or mebbe it's a figment of Higgs' and Bosun's fertile imagination. Show me one!
Hope the allotment is burgeoning. That one can see, hear, smell, taste and enjoy!
IOn: I had a strawberry up the allotment this evening. First one. The place is exploding with tatties and everything else. What a difference two months makes! Hotboy. p.s. Got stung twice by wasps yesterday whilst weeding! Disturbed a nest or whatever. Dearie me! I wish I had one of them. A sting, I mean!
I had a strawberry up the allotment this evening - not in the biblical sense, surely.
Re your question about everything coming in threes (not in the biblical etc.) - the brain is probably wired to be extra receptive to three of anything. Politicians always orate in threes. Actually it may be to do with the average voter's attention span or mathematical limit.
Didn't Mohammed Ali sting like a wasp? Which in your experience is worse - being stung by a wasp or being pugilistically pulverised in public?
Albert? Is that you? Being pulverised in public is much better than being pulverised in private. At least, you've volunteeered for the former. I was impressed by the wasp stings, particularly the first one, through the trousers as well. Not as bad as beind stung by a jellyfish though. That's not nice at all, especially when the recommendation is to splash it in piss, and it's on your brow, and you are in public. Quite an initiative test that one! Hotboy
If I had been around for the jellyfish sting, I would have helped you out with piss.
Albert? Thanks for this. Obviously, a good man to have in tight spot. Hotboy
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