Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Reality and the Sacred | TVOntario | #1" video.

  1. I think the point of the opening story is: "Don't presume to know what God has designed the GOOD to be." The man replaced the superior injunction, "Don't touch it", with his own personal judgement that the Good required disobedience of the designer of GOOD. Such arrogance shouldn't go unpunished...the gods rankle at human hubris.
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  2. "Existence is suffering" should be interpreted with a neutral definition of "suffering". In popular parlance it's often found with "pain", as in "pain and suffering". But that's not neutral. Suffering == Experience. You may suffer "joy" as well as "sorrow". But the "suffering" itself is a function of existence, which provides the facility for Experience. Knowledge roots in Experience/Suffering. Existence without Limitation is inconceivable, conceptually contradictory. Limitation is the methodology of Existence. Manifestation is a process of limitation/Godification of the Primeval Chaotic Void: Once upon an eternity, there was only the Void, perfectly indistinct, multiform potentiality, a seething chaos. As hoped for by the designers of universes, there arose a statistically impossibly unlikely state of repetition in the Chaotic Void. This created a Paradox: the chaotic void exhibited "memory". "Reflection" is implied by "repetition" and itself implies Time...this is the birthing of Order by Chaos, to isolate the Paradox, as it threatens the "existence" of the Chaotic Void Itself. To keep the Void from venting, Order expressed Time as Consciousness and Physical Reality in the Big Bang. How's THAT for a modern myth?!
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  3. "Almost nothing has obvious boundaries"?! What?! Boundaries produce "thingness", itself! Everything is defined by its boundaries. Lacking all such definition is only non-existence. This vid is six years old. Recent scientific studies have proven the rather ancient idea that the body doesn't recognize the difference between the experience of external reality and the experience of reality in imagination. The body responds to imagination as if it was real, neurally. O.M.G. Consider the import! We may be entering a period of "scientific mysticism"...
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  4. "Nature == Chaos"? No. Nature is the BORDER between Order and Chaos in the Yin-Yang symbol. It's the Cosmos's expression of the balance between Chaos and Order that the Taoists observed and emulated. I suspect JP was speaking psychically: in casual popular perception, Nature represents Chaos. I don't see in my experience the persistence of this conception beyond early developmental years: mature adults don't make this equation, seeing Nature as a certain model of organization/Order, though It may exhibit "chaos" that goes unrecognized as the dynamic function of Order that it is.
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