Excursus : Within the Realm of Enlightenment

12.28.2006

Oh Men

How do you know that the apparently corporal reality that you are experiencing right now is not an imaginative illusion that your Self is having, due perhaps to a bit of undigested spiritual knowledge or a blot of attachment?

I do not doubt that there are people who have the “experience” of a physical world, who believe that it is “real and valid”.

But, why should anyone else believe it is, just because those say it is, instead of being some highly detailed imaginative dream/apparition caused by too much stimulation or overactive desire.

Nothing is necessarily wrong with that point of view, but it is not a convincing argument.

“Certitude conquers doubt, not ignorance. And with doubt conquered, ignorance is invincible.”


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