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#Philosophy bite :
"Behold but One in all things ; it is the second that leads you astray."
- Kabir
This has precisely the same meaning as, "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
Why? Because the second thing is the judgement, and it's intrinsic to linguistic thought.
Summary of Kabir :
The judgement, the story we tell ourselves after we make an observation is what causes us so much suffering.
Once you observe this storytelling in yourself, you see it everywhere.
Let it go. Deny no thing. Then act towards what it is that you prefer.
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Well said. You can go even further, though. Names separate you from the true nature of things. A name represents a mental model, which you are familiar with and possibly even a little bored with. But how was it when you were a little kid, exploring the world? Salamanders were dragons! The floor was lava! The pillows stacked up were a fort! But over time, you learned names for everything, and names for parts of things, and for concepts, and more "useful" abstractions. But those things were more real than they are now. Without the name, the thing was the thing in itself ; with the name, you don't experience the thing anymore. Without a name, you had to observe every feature, and couldn't compare it with a standard of what things like it ought to be like. That state was fully in the eternal and happy present.
Yeah I've felt that too.
When you see a beautiful little excuisite flower. It loses a little of its beauty when you call it an orchid.
I've not found a way to stop my mind attaching a label to things.
Sometimes when I'm in a relaxed state I can just observe. This is when I feel closest to the earth mother & all her creatures.
I have a pet theory that the earth mother or Gaia is the same thing as Sophia, and that's the same thing as the holy spirit. I've taken a lot from the gnostics, but I think its simpler than their cosmologies. One thing that clicked was when I heard a gnostic say the holy spirit is actually female, or has a female energy or quality.
I think I might have found a way to stop naming things. But if it doesn't work, I'll be even worse off, lol. I think it can be done by focusing on constituent parts. Basically invest that child like wonder into learning every detail possible - be a scientist. But a super scientist, cuz also meditate, blend science with a spiritual outlook. That's, so far, my best crack at fully conscious awareness.
Definitely motherly & feminine. Feels like both the creator & created of all life from Earth.
I've not looked into the gnostics but everything I've come across seems to resonate with me.
I think rather than focus on the constituent parts, you should defocus on the object. Zoom out & remove the illusion of seperation & the need to assign names. I'm pretty sure everything thing here is Gaia.
I think this is a very well put observation. Our tendency to lable the world we see, and the thoughts within, blinds us from the true nature of things. Shameless plug, but I have just written an entire book around the subject: The Ancient Way of the Mind. I just came across your profile. It is nice to find those of like mind.
