06-05-2010, 07:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2010, 07:14 PM by Ali Quadir.)
Wow, yeah!
Unfortunately this means we cannot get anywhere with thought alone. If you want to know anything at some point you're going to have to stop thinking about it.
Because anything that can be named or defined, cannot be known through it's name or definition, only it's distortion can be known. It's very real.. If I was blind no one could explain red to me using names and definitions.
But seeing red is the same, it's really another distortion of Red, expressed in your visual subsystem as opposed to your conceptual subsystem. Which is why if I see red, and you see red, we can never check if we experience Red in the same way.
We must leave knowing what Red truly is in the hands of the creator and satisfy ourselves with approximations.
Unfortunately this means we cannot get anywhere with thought alone. If you want to know anything at some point you're going to have to stop thinking about it.
Because anything that can be named or defined, cannot be known through it's name or definition, only it's distortion can be known. It's very real.. If I was blind no one could explain red to me using names and definitions.
But seeing red is the same, it's really another distortion of Red, expressed in your visual subsystem as opposed to your conceptual subsystem. Which is why if I see red, and you see red, we can never check if we experience Red in the same way.
We must leave knowing what Red truly is in the hands of the creator and satisfy ourselves with approximations.