Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:23 pm
@electricshephard ... Out of curiosity, what is your take on this realization eventually being actualized on a mass scale of any significance, rather than just in a few seers who are 'nailed' for their trouble ~ albeit not so much literally nowadays, but rather just cynically lambasted for talking rubbish in suggesting that we're not inevitably destined as a collective to dysfunctionally carry on under the suffering-prone spell of maya, with just an endless series of 'train wrecks' awaiting us until, at best, we shed this corporeal form and its veil of tears, never to return again, forsaking any foolhardy Bodhisattva vows.
I suppose the scientific method would be to try to identify the variables that are preventing mass-realisation.
As humans, do we
all have the capacity to understand such things (but have not been furnished with the right information) or is it more of a structural problem, like a fundamental blindness / biological inhibitor?
There is much space for awkward conclusions.
For example, if one looks at suffering / discompassion within the animal kingdom (specifically animal vs animal violence) it’s difficult not to conclude that there is something fundamentally “unfair” about this whole reality. Even if we were successful in teaching every human to recognise the Universal Self in others, what about the animals? How do we solve that?
If the sentience of the Universal Self is present of animals as much as it is humans, how do we convince the lion not to attack the buffalo, or the spider against the fly, the crow against the worm and so forth? It would appear that in
this realm, everyone is algorithmically committed to perpetually eating each other in a never-ending game of Agario!
Nonetheless, I’m an optimist. Those that have an ear let them hear, because the more of us that are on the same page the sooner we can start to solve impossible problems.
In my view, a fundamental first step is teaching the wisdom that pertains to the impossibility of absolute unconsciousness in the 1st-person. Understanding the logical rationality for why you are are an Eternal being is a critical basis for further ontological inspiration. The sleeping masses seem to have a catastrophic indifference toward Eternal existence, predicated around axioms such as “you only live once” and “the only things that are certain are death and taxes”.
The impossibility of absolute unconsciousness in the 1st-person completely destroys all of that. Beforehand all you had to worry about was death and suffering. Now all you have to worry about is
Eternal existence and suffering!
For me at least, this understanding that you are Eternal is accompanied with a sudden and urgent need to permanently solve the riddle of reality, almost (ironically) as though it were a race against time.