Consciousness Experiencing Itself as Temporal Reality
The Unmanifested vibrates both through this phenomenal
existence and as this phenomenal existence.The
8th verse of the Buddhist masterpiece The Heart Sutra (Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya) goes:
“Whatever is Form, that is Emptiness and whatever is Emptiness, that is Form”
In order to clarify this statement in reverse, I'm quoting below from an older post:
“Whatever is Form, that is Emptiness and whatever is Emptiness, that is Form”
[whatever ("yad") is ("sa") form
("rūpa"), that is emptiness ("śūnyātā"), whatever
("ya") is ("sa") emptiness ("śūnyātā"), that
("tad") is ("sa") form ("rūpa")]
But what about looking in the mirror at the Heart Sutra with
this statement in reverse:
“yad nāmarūpam sa
satya ya satya tad nāmarūpam” ?
I am again inclined to regard Buddhism as Advaita Vedānta
reflected in a mirror. This statement from The Heart Sutra, in a Vedāntic
treatise would read:
“yad nāmarūpam sa
satya ya satya tad nāmarūpam”,
That is:
“All that is Name and Form is Being and whatever is Being is equally
Name and Form.”
India has had this great gift of skillfully handling the
paradoxical language.In order to clarify this statement in reverse, I'm quoting below from an older post:
“When the
Consciousness objectifies itself as a visible form, or, in other words, when
the consciousness experiences itself as a temporal reality, only then can It be
conceptualized. When the One Consciousness reveals itself as an object or a
thought, it paradoxically and simultaneously obscures itself. This is why it is
so hard to see beyond the world of dancing and playing forms (Skr. “rūpa”) and
concepts (Skr. “nāma”), the underlying reality. However, the objectified, the
manifested or the visible aspect of reality, as a whole, in other words, this
dance of māyā represents, for India, just a symbolic representation of the
absolute Being or the Unmanifested, that vibrates both through this phenomenal
existence and as this phenomenal existence.” (http://luciandantes.blogspot.ro/2014/02/thresholds-of-awareness.html)
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