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Radar · 04-22-2004, 11:57 AM

Buddhists teach that in order to reach that level, you must completely let go of the "self". Which essentially means to remove all of the tint on the glass of your window of perception.

But the size of your window to look at reality is still limited. It is impossible for anyone (including the "enlightened") to see all of reality though if there truly were enlightened people, they would see actual reality but the amount of reality they could see would still be limited to the size of their window of perception.

But in the end there is only one reality and that reality is independent of perception. Imagine you are at a peep show with those windows that open and close. You can only see what is within the view of your window. And while there are windows all around the show inside giving different angles, the view in the window is not what is happening in the showroom anymore than a painting of a puppy is a puppy.

The glass in our booth is tinted, and our window opens and closes for a short time (in this case for as long as our money lasts) because our life is limited in length. So even if our perception (window) were not tinted, we still couldn't see things from all angles, and we'd still miss the parts of the show before and after our window was opened.

04-22-2004, 11:57 AM	#7
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	Buddhists teach that in order to reach that level, you must completely let go of the "self". Which essentially means to remove all of the tint on the glass of your window of perception. But the size of your window to look at reality is still limited. It is impossible for anyone (including the "enlightened") to see all of reality though if there truly were enlightened people, they would see actual reality but the amount of reality they could see would still be limited to the size of their window of perception. But in the end there is only one reality and that reality is independent of perception. Imagine you are at a peep show with those windows that open and close. You can only see what is within the view of your window. And while there are windows all around the show inside giving different angles, the view in the window is not what is happening in the showroom anymore than a painting of a puppy is a puppy. The glass in our booth is tinted, and our window opens and closes for a short time (in this case for as long as our money lasts) because our life is limited in length. So even if our perception (window) were not tinted, we still couldn't see things from all angles, and we'd still miss the parts of the show before and after our window was opened. __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin Last edited by Radar; 04-22-2004 at 12:02 PM.