Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Probable Solutions

Progression of ideas:
  1. What is the situation? Awareness of Self and World.
  2. What is the general problem? A sense of doership coupled with a lack of purpose.
  3. What is the symptom of the problem in human? All knowledge is subjective and all actions are a result of conditioning. The situation is unsettling.
  4. From inquiry, what are the probable solutions to the problem? a) Get rid of dualism to eliminate self-other split, b) Get 'objective' knowledge to understand everything, c) Live in duality and operate with subjective knowledge but understand you are not the doer.
  5. Probable Sol #1: Get rid of dualism. Hint: Lose yourself, what remains is non-dual.
  6. Probable Sol #2: Get objective knowledge. Hint: Lose the subject, what remains is objective.
  7. Probable Sol #3: Understand non-doership. Hint: Reflect on the core of your being. (Subject of next blog.)
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Dissolving Duality: an Unsolvable Problem

As long as the ego (sense of 'I') exists in an individual, duality exists. Actions of an individual, motivated by reasoning on imperfect knowledge is bound to have effects on the individual as the ego presumes responsibility for the knowledge, reasoning and actions. As there cannot be any objective judgments such as right/wrong, good/bad etc about such actions, the individual is in limbo.

When the ego dissolves (this depends on whether ego is a real/illusory entity!), I think, all actions will become completely unselfish. When there is no doer (ego), there is no ground for the effects of actions to affect the doer.

How can an individual with ego attain the state of dissolved ego? I don't think it is possible because all actions of the individual with ego produces effects that affects the ego and only bolsters its presence.

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