Dialogue: A Neo-Buddhist and a Symbiotic Panentheist

 

Clyde G. is a respected thinker and Neo-Buddhist who has been acknowledged for his ability to ask questions going to the heart of issues regarding metaphysical models of reality.

 

 

cg: The Singularity

 

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[050613 cg]  The 'interdependencies of dualities in reality' refers to ALL dualities (as in A and not-A or Yin & Yang) and declares that the members of the duality must exist simultaneously.

[050615 djs] Are you suggesting there is no Singularity, no Whole of Reality?

 

[050617 cg]  No.  All things (and entities) that can be named and defined have an opposite; so, if a thing exists, then that which is not that thing simultaneously exists.  As I wrote previously, "Terms such as Mind and Void [Singularity] are used to refer to the ultimate non-dual nature of reality.  But that reality is beyond words and intellectualizations.  It is nameless and cannot be truly named, so we label the Nameless (I often prefer the term G-d.), but the Nameless cannot defined, diagramed, or described."



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[050613 cg continues] … but one should not project additional characteristics on such an entity [the Totality of Consciousness] merely because one has labeled a collection.

[050615 djs] I'm not sure what this means. Are you suggesting this is a moral/ethical issue or are you suggesting it is impossible to do so?

 

[050617 cg]  Neither.  Doing so simply promotes confusion.



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[050613 cg]  If by 'non-discrete' you mean what I mean by 'non-dual', then we are in agreement.  If by 'the unmanifested' you refer to what I refer to by 'the Nameless', then we are in agreement.

[050615 djs] It appears we agree yet, I'm not sure why, but I sense we are far apart.

 

[050617 cg]  Spooky!