Thank you for posting this, Robert. When I first stumbled upon 4T and devoured it, it was like a grenade went off in my heart / head. Boom! Shit started falling apart and flying everywhere! Other, more entrenched stuff, started coming loose. It was staggering! Then, DONT came along, and everything went nuclear! Kaboom! Your no-holds-barred, total assault approach has been a life saver, my friend! Keep up the good work...
Having spent years as a friend of U.G. Krishnamurti, I feel quite at home with Robert; and also kind of related. No masks, no veils. Thank you again and again.
Yes, when it's someone like Jim Newman, it's completely understandable. I've dissed their religion. But someone on Joan Tollifson's page, where she shared some of my writing with approval and recommendation, one fool called me "abusive" and another said I was "insane." lol
The operative word is "certain," Is there any epistemological certainty?
Nisargadatta may have the feeling, intuition, belief, etcetera, but he did not put it that way. He said, "I am that." Yes? And you know that how exactly?
Yes, Crispin. We seem to agree on the elusive nature of certainty and how pragmatism, language, etc., inform approaches to knowing. But those factors make my very point. If one understands that the word "fact" may be defined in a multitude of ways, it is difficult listen to words about "The Absolute," uttered with complete certainty without feeling deeply skeptical.
Thank you for posting this, Robert. When I first stumbled upon 4T and devoured it, it was like a grenade went off in my heart / head. Boom! Shit started falling apart and flying everywhere! Other, more entrenched stuff, started coming loose. It was staggering! Then, DONT came along, and everything went nuclear! Kaboom! Your no-holds-barred, total assault approach has been a life saver, my friend! Keep up the good work...
As long as I am able, wes.
Having spent years as a friend of U.G. Krishnamurti, I feel quite at home with Robert; and also kind of related. No masks, no veils. Thank you again and again.
The backlash that some of your posts elicit when shared in no-self non-dual groups is just amazing LOL LOL LOL
Will continue to share nonetheless and laugh at being called out on my unawakeness and all the rest LOL
Yes, when it's someone like Jim Newman, it's completely understandable. I've dissed their religion. But someone on Joan Tollifson's page, where she shared some of my writing with approval and recommendation, one fool called me "abusive" and another said I was "insane." lol
Yes, lol - or fans of Rupert's and such like.
sleep
I hope that's a very long time. Hell, look at Bob Adamson, he's 94, and still keeps going. Of course, Kat keeps shoveling health food into him too...
The operative word is "certain," Is there any epistemological certainty?
Nisargadatta may have the feeling, intuition, belief, etcetera, but he did not put it that way. He said, "I am that." Yes? And you know that how exactly?
Yes, Crispin. We seem to agree on the elusive nature of certainty and how pragmatism, language, etc., inform approaches to knowing. But those factors make my very point. If one understands that the word "fact" may be defined in a multitude of ways, it is difficult listen to words about "The Absolute," uttered with complete certainty without feeling deeply skeptical.
Thank you, Crispin. Given your interest in epistemology, you might like to read this from my second book too:
http://www.thetenthousandthings.net/DONT%20sample.pdf