Paradox vs Contradiction

[Jirh]

8 hours ago, Hyperion said:

 

 

!!OGNIB 

[UnbornTao]

@Hyperion Maybe. What do we get by adopting hearsay, though? Notice everything regarding the absolute comes to us - they are ideas and concepts, beliefs and conclusions, states and experiences. Neither of those are enlightenment. What is it? A possibility for each of us to personally and directly become conscious of. What's that? We can't know until we start having some breakthroughs.

Everything else regarding "absolute truth" is highly irrelevant. So why not go after a personal breakthrough into the matter? This is where the real work happens.

[Hyperion]

14 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

What do we get by adopting hearsay, though?

Nothing, which is exactly why I don't rely on it.

14 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

So why not go after a personal breakthrough into the matter?

Why not, indeed?

14 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

This is where the real work happens.

As long as it still feels like "work", there hasn't been a true breakthrough. The real magic happens where the real work stops. 

 

Edited August 16 by Hyperion

[UnbornTao]

21 minutes ago, Hyperion said:

Nothing, which is exactly why I don't rely on it.

Why not, indeed?

As long as it still feels like "work", there hasn't been a true breakthrough. The real magic happens where the real work stops. 

 

Sure. 

[Hyperion]

On 16.8.2025 at 8:41 PM, Jirh said:

!!OGNIB 

A valid counterperspective. 🙏