[MD] because

[MarshaV]

John,

For me truth is relative.  The Ultimate (not Absolute) Truth can only be 
approached through the non-affirming negative, and why I so much
like: not this, not that. 


On Apr 12, 2010, at 12:20 AM, John Carl wrote:

> "There is another important matter:  the *question* of Truth is not the same
> thing as truth.  I am not entering into metaphysics here.  The question is
> not truth, because it is not the question that a person asks themselves
> about their own life or experience.  This sort of question (THEE question of
> Truth) is just another intellectual game and a way of remaining outside
> truth.  After all, it does not matter if one can answer or not, nor does it
> matter whether the answer is personal or is objectified as philosophy or
> revelation.  But when a person asks about their *own* life (consciously or
> unconsciously), then the real *question* of truth has been asked.
> 
> And when anyone claims to have resolved it, they are lying.

This is more likely the reason I was uncomfortable with someone 
telling me I am right.


> 
> When they try to answer this question within the framework of reality alone,
> they have no answer to offer.  The question which their life puts to them in
> all its aspect and its expressions remans an open question.  It is
> continually being put to them, and this IS truth itself.

An open question is truth?   


Marsha




> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:57 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> it makes me giggle...
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 11, 2010, at 8:52 AM, X Acto wrote:
>> 
>>> relativly speaking of course
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>
>>> To: MoQ <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
>>> Sent: Sun, April 11, 2010 3:27:20 AM
>>> Subject: [MD] because
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "It is because emptiness reveals and expresses the relativity
>>> of all phenomena that it becomes the key to understanding
>>> non-duality.  We can see how recognition of the relativity
>>> -- and subsequent transcendence -- of opposites is tantamount
>>> to the perception of non-duality, or non-differentiation."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> For those who shun relativism, it is interesting how every other
>>> statement points to it.  Academic styled language be damned.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ___