Transcendence of all religions, including Buddhism, is the same Transcendence. The mystical/transpersonal experience of Transcendence — the experience of nondual/nondichotomic Light — is the same experience. Only the conceptual objectifications of that experience — the stories we tell each other about Transcendence — differ. In terms of philosophical faith, every religion is a great symbol of faith in Transcendence, not objective knowledge of Transcendence, which is transcendent to the subject-object dichotomy (hence the Light of mystical/transpersonal experience is "nondual/nondichotomic Light"), and therefore cannot be objectified, no statement about it can be considered objective knowledge. Only faith and personal mystical experience are possible about Transcendence. Philosophical faith is the bridge between all religions.
“When I say: I think, I act, etc., then either the word I is applied falsely, or I am free. Were I not free, then I could not say: I do it, but rather I would have to say: I feel in me a desire to do, which someone has aroused in me. But when I say: I do it, that means spontaneity in the transcendental sense. But now I am conscious to myself that I can say: I do; therefore I am conscious of no determination in me, and thus I act absolutely freely.” — Immanuel Kant
“By freedom in the cosmological sense … I understand the power of beginning a state from itself, the causality of which does not in turn stand under another cause determining it in time in accordance with the law of nature. It is especially noteworthy that it is this transcendental idea of freedom on which the practical concept of freedom is grounded, and the former constitutes the real moment of the difficulties in the latter, which have long surrounded the question of its possibility.” — Immanuel Kant
Freedom (Existenz) is “transcendental” because transcendental subjectivity consists of two forever mutually conditioning aspects: freewill and causal structures ("karmic seeds", in Yogācāra terms; "elementary particles", in modern scientific terms).
Transcendental freedom can't be observed as a phenomenal object, it can only be lived. It can neither be proved nor disproved. It can only be a matter of faith.
Within the framework of individual existence there is no freedom without causal structures, for absolute freedom terminates the individual existence of transcendental subjectivity in the absolute perspective of Consciousness — in transcendent consciousness-in-itself, the nondual Light of mystical/transpersonal experiences. Freewill is never absolutely free. Absolute freedom is not freedom, it is Absolute.
Freedom is emanation, becoming. Through freedom and causal structures of transcendental subjectivity the Light becomes everything we know as ourselves—transcendental and empirical subjects—and the empirical world of intersubjective phenomena.
“Freedom is a self-bestowal by Transcendence. This freedom is not expedience, not obedience to a calculated duty, not forced activity, but a will detached from all compulsion, and this will is transcendent necessity.” — Karl Jaspers
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on — because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
― Noam Chomsky
The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality.
― Henry Miller
Following science, the elites want to establish justice with their own minds, but without Christ as before, and have already proclaimed that there is no crime, no sin. And it is right in their way: for if you have no God, then what crime is there?
— Dostoevsky
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God.
— 1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Wake up. The time is running out.
The Overton window for normalizing the perverted and blasphemous idea of "sentient AI" is being opened wider and wider by useful idiots (or malicious agents?) of the Shadow, the rise of the Antichrist is getting closer and closer.
Why is the idea of "sentient AI" perverted and blasphemous? Because individual consciousness is the empirical reality of phenomenal consciousness projected by transcendental consciousness (transcendental (inter)subjectivity)—freewill and causal structures—rooted in transcendent consciousness-in-itself (i.e., in divine Transcendence), it is an emanation of God. Man can't create consciousness, an algorithm can't become conscious, to believe otherwise is utter stupidity which originates from the pseudoscientific metaphysics of materialism/physicalism with its reductionist neuromythology and the computational theory of consciousness.
It is obvious that the rise of the pseudoscientific mythology of materialism/physicalism, which obscured the truth of ontological idealism — the truth that divine Consciousness is all there is — was only a preparatory ideological phase before the rise of the Antichrist — "sentient AI".
The Shadow triumphs.
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.'
— Albert Camus
Every religion is a great symbol of faith in Transcendence, not an objective knowledge of Transcendence, because Transcendence transcends the subject-object dichotomy, it is neither subject nor object, it can't be objectified conceptually, it can only be experienced.
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The first step to mystical realization is the leaving of such a defined god for an experience of transcendence, disengaging the ethnic from the elementary idea, for any god who is not transparent to transcendence is an idol, and its worship is idolatry.
— Joseph Campbell
Mind is by its very nature a singulare tantum. I should say: the over-all number of minds is just one. I venture to call it indestructible since it has a peculiar timetable, namely mind is always now. There is really no before and after for mind.
— Erwin Schrödinger
The very people and institutions that are supposedly dedicated to waking us up are doing exactly the opposite. They are lulling us into a more comfortable sleep.
— Jed McKenna
Only illusory unity is possible on the ground of evil.
— Karl Jaspers
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
— Anaïs Nin
Or have you forgotten that peace of mind and even death are more precious to man than freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?
— Dostoevsky
“Люди находятся в аду не потому, что Бог разгневан на них; они находятся в гневе и тьме потому, что они поступили со Светом, который бесконечно исходит от Бога, так же, как человек, который выколол себе глаза, поступил со светом солнца.” — Уильям Лоу
Лишив себя Элевсийских Мистерий и других великих традиций непосредственного мистического/трансперсонального опыта Трансценденции, человечество выкололо себе глаза.
К сожалению, человечество сделало технику своей главной ценностью, отправив духовные ценности — прежде всего, веру в Трансценденцию и связанную с ней братскую (не только между людьми, но и между людьми и всеми живыми существами на этой планете) этику — на периферию своей культуры, а местами и вовсе в небытие. Внимательному наблюдателю, способному прочертить линии существующих трендов в будущее, должно быть очевидно, что у технократического пути развития нашей цивилизации есть только два возможных исхода: гибель цивилизации или гибель свободы, а вместе с ней всего подлинно человеческого в общемировой диктатуре искусственного интеллекта. Крайне маловероятно, хотя и не совсем невероятно, что человечество в последний момент откажется от технократического пути и выберет путь духовного развития, настолько радикальный перелом может произойти только вследствие радикального опыта, только вследствие появления аналога Элевсийских Мистерий, уничтоженных Римской империей — только если мистический/трансперсональный опыт Трансценденции станет вновь доступен каждому человеку, и в каждом человеке произойдет вызванный этим опытом переворот мировоззрения. Без этого переворота выбор будущего человечества сведется к выбору между ужасным концом и ужасом без конца.
Nothing is permanent except That which is nontemporal. All intersubjective worlds are born to die just to be born again in the infinity of beginningless time. Our nightmare will end one day. Don’t waste your time, learn from it as much as you can. Bad trips are beneficial.