Re: Truth
Jan 20, 1997 06:19 PM
by M K Ramadoss
At 09:00 PM 1/20/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Doss:
>>Once you start with a falsehood (interesting or not), then it will lead
>>to further falsehoods since there will be holes in the falsehood and so
>>there will be a chain of falsehoods....etc
>
>Doss, your arguement is right insofar as mundane logic is concerned,
>but I think Chuck is on another level. In a sense, every truth
>has the kernel within it of a falsehoos, and vice versa. This
>comes from the yin-yang, of course, which demonstrates that every
>side of a duality contains within it the seed of its opposite.
>
>>A truth is simple and does not change and no burden on the memory and
>>does not need much of a mental effort.
>
> This sounds good to most of us, and we are conforted
>by thinking that there is something in existence that is eternal
>and changeless. However, I suspect that unchanging truth
>doesn't really exist except for possibly a manvantara. But
>the truth of one manvantara may not be the truth in another.
>Perhaps we can say that the only real eternal truth is
>change itself? My own feeling is that the only real Truth
>to this or any other manvantaric existence is the divine
>Monad and its inherent ability to express itself, and this
>is impossible to describe in words and is quite beyond all
>logic to explain.
>
>Jerry S.
>Member, TI
>
Jerry:
I agree with you. I think I should have substituted "fact" for "truth" in my
post.
Again I am reminded of the famous Truth is a pathless land approach where
Truth is seen as not a fixed one but something -- I would not say dynamic --
but *not* fixed.
Thanks.
MKR
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