Dear Venerable. Thanks for the videos you post on youtube, wherin I find great inspiration for my practice. In this video, I particularly appreciate the analogy you make of consciousness being like transparent water that is colored by a vast array of mental states, in indefinetely many possible permutations. Let me note, however, that it should be stressed that it is only an analogy, because otherwise it runs the risk of ontologizing consciousness as something with it own nature that exists independently of causes and conditions. Such an ontologizing of consciousness would make it very similar to the Samkya notion of purusha or the Atma of the Vedanta, right?
Dear Venerable. Thanks for the videos you post on youtube, wherin I find great inspiration for my practice. In this video, I particularly appreciate the analogy you make of consciousness being like transparent water that is colored by a vast array of mental states, in indefinetely many possible permutations. Let me note, however, that it should be stressed that it is only an analogy, because otherwise it runs the risk of ontologizing consciousness as something with it own nature that exists independently of causes and conditions. Such an ontologizing of consciousness would make it very similar to the Samkya notion of purusha or the Atma of the Vedanta, right?
All these religions are making memorization and not real experience and "real" realization