File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1996/96-12-14.144, message 18


Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 10:12 GMT
From: LH Engelskirchen <lhengels-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: BHA: meaningless experience


 
 
On meaningless experience.  When this exists, it is a significant
human accomplishment of the sort texts on meditation refer to as
enlightenment.  The problem I have with the concept is that in
order for experience to be meaningless, the mind must be blank. 
Suppose I look through a microscope at a cell, but for lack of
training see nothing of significance, and anyway think of a dinner
date, or errands to run, etc.  Anything running through my head can
attach to the event and give the experience meaning.  Connections
of all sorts surface in dreams.
 
 
Howard


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