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The singularity of the physical and spiritual

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  1. shin
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    shin

    From Wikipedia's list of the meaning of singularity I take 2 which are applicable here:

    Gravitational singularity, a point in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density and zero volume.
    Mathematical singularity, a point at which a given [mathematical] object is not defined.

    Infinite density and zero volume means that there is no space, and no separation possible, which by necessity leads to objects being undefined.

    This is the normal and natural state of our existence, which led me to say in another thread that the phsyical is spiritual and the spiritual is physical. Any distinction between the two is quite arbitrary and therefore has little or no 'truth value'.

    This is beautifully expressed in these words, which form part of instructions for a cook:
    "Handle even a single leaf of a green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf. This is a power which you cannot grasp with your rational mind. It operates freely, according to teh situation, in a most natural way. At the same time, this power functions in our lives to clarify and settle activities and is beneficial to all living things."

    When we begin to handle leaves of green as "mere" leaves of greens and make Holy Buddhas out of Buddhas, that is when we lose contact with this power and things becomes murky and muddled.

    Stepping back from our mental agitations is the means "whereby we turn things even while simultaneously we are being turned by them.

    But what do we step back into, other than into our earthly existence, into our physical being?

    Posted 1 month ago #
  2. Star

    hey shin...there is no doubt, at least from where i am sitting, that we have a physical existence that has been consciously separated from it's spiritual aspect...it's voice or energy is obvious in the very way that we store emotions or memories of tramatic events that our phyche is unable to process, for whatever reason, but is felt and stored also in the very muscles of our bodies...

    the very fact that our physical has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and with that the processes that we take for granted, and many of them that reside in the unconscious...mind...science seems to be playing catch up...with...

    i have been studying cognitive science, specifically enactivism, and although it stops short of a complete vision or view i think, it still has given me such insight to how humans interact with their environment, and through that very interaction, bilogical evolution happens...and consciousness happens through the very process of emotions and motivation that feels itself...or becomes aware and knows...

    i am in awe of scientific findings now, that are focusing on consciousness, finally, in a way that is very exciting...and i have begun to experience the very integration of my being with my humanness, at a level that is quiet new and amazing...which is why i responded to your thread...lol

    there is so much that we do not know...and yet so much that we can know, if we but apply ourselves and use those critical thinking muscles that in my experience never were excercised much until recently...

    funny, but without this very physical existence...how would we be able to be aware...of anything...otherwise?

    much love and joy...always, star...

    Posted 1 month ago #

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