Consciousness, knowing, knowledge, experiencing, …
So what’s the point?
The point is to live life.
The West: Symbiosis: Science, All is in the physical, all aspects of consciousness emerge from the physical, the physical affects consciousness, each aspect of the physical affects the other in some manner or other, phenomenology …
The East: Panentheism: All is in consciousness, all aspects of the physical emerge from consciousness, consciousness affects the physical, each aspect of consciousness affects the other in some manner or other, existentialism …
Symbiotic panentheism:
It is not just about you, it is not just about you reaching Nirvana, you obtaining Nirvana, you entering Nirvana
It is about Nirvana absorbing you and other ‘self/s’.
It is about Nirvana absorbing billions, trillions, of ‘self’ existences.
It is about collective consciousness avoiding eternal recurrence through the process of ‘creating’ newness through ‘you’ and others like you.
Without you Nirvana, collective consciousness, alaya consciousness, amala consciousness, God – the omniscient being … stagnates in an existence of eternal equilibrium, eternal recurrence …
Without you Nirvana, collective consciousness, alaya consciousness, amala consciousness, God – the omniscient being … stagnates in a sensory deprivation chamber of its own making where the fluid within which it is immersed is known knowledge, known experiencing, known conclusions to all scenarios except how to generate ‘newness’, generate variety, generate diversity, generate wonder ....
Without you, without discrete entities of ‘self’, without you, Omniscience remains impotent in the sense that Omniscience knows everything except how to create what does not exist.
The seeming paradox is irrational.
Only a merging of East and West provides an understanding as to how it is both East and West are correct but not while standing isolated one from the other but when standing together embracing one another.
Only the rejection of the ‘either/or’ scenario embraced by both the East and West provides the solution.
Only the ‘and’ scenario presented by symbiotic panentheism provides the system theistic model, the cosmological model, the metaphysical model which unites East and West and thereby completes the picture of reality and thus revealing the solution to the question: So what’s the point.
The question you must ask of yourself then becomes: Just what is it you are going to add to Nirvana, bring with you to Heaven, inject into collective consciousness, inject into God …
It is your choice no one else’s, given to you through the gift of free will.