[MD] Thus spoke Lila

[MarshaV]

Greetings Mark,

I like this questions.  I might try an answer.

You seem correct that it is addressing static individual reality, and that would be the ego's perspective.  I suppose thinking my body is independent is a biological point-of-view that leads to "my" reality.  The social level is to provide for biological needs so it will feed that type of thinking; it adds its own variations of realty based on social institutions such as the church of religion and the church of reason/science.   Hmmm.  The intellectual level?  The intellectual level's purpose is to assist the social level.  Today that might be to assist the church of reason/science.  It's reality is still what is conceptually constructed.  And it seems within the Intellectual Level the individual has again become important as an object of analysis and as a contaminant.  Basically, I think that reality is the active patterns of whatever level.  Ahhh, but there will always be those renegade individuals who will want to climb outside the level structure altogether and offer information from a broader perspective,  RMP for example.  

Speaking of what is conceptually constructed, do you like my story?  

 
Marsha  












On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:43 AM, 118 wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> 
> What you present may work for individual reality (perhaps we can call
> this biological reality).  But does the same thing hold for social or
> intellectual reality?
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:02 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings:
>> 
>> I still think the best understanding of REALITY is found in Lila's words(LILA, Chapter 14): "...I'm whatever your questions turn me into. You don't see that. It's your questions that make me who I am. If you think I'm an angel then that's what I am. If you think I'm a whore then that's what I am. I'm whatever you think. And if you change your mind about me then I change too. So whatever Richard tells you, it's true. There's no way he can lie about me."    -    Reality is whatever you think it is (your patterns), there's no way you can lie about it, and if you change your understanding of reality, then reality changes too.
>> 
>> 
>> Here are something by David Bohm that says the same thing:
>> 
>> "Reality is what we take to be true.  What we take to be true is what we believe.  What we believe is based upon our perceptions.  What we perceive depends upon what we look for.  What we look for depends on what we think.  What we think depends on what we perceive.  What we perceive determines what we believe.  What we believe determines what we take to be true.  What we take to be true is our reality."
>> 
>>      (Mathieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan, 'The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet',p.121)
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