"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them-never become even conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?"
- C. S. Lewis
(Today's Peace Quote)
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5 comments:
The fewer filters (thoughts, preconceptions, concepts, etc.) the more reality is let in or the more consciousness shines out. I have read a similar analogy using a dirty window that is being cleaned. This I believe points to something similar:
Sitting in Meditation
Sitting in meditation does not primarily
Mean that the mind should be grasped,
That the idea of purity should be clung to,
Nor that it should be motionless.
When you talk of grasping the mind,
Remember that the mind is fundamentally
Unreal and is known to be illusory.
Therefore, there is nothing that can be grasped
When you talk of clinging to the idea
Of purity, remember that the self-nature
Is essentially pure. It is only due to false
Thoughts that the absolute is concealed.
If there is no thinking, the self-nature will
Appear pure and clean.
- Bodhisattvasila Sutra
Form always implies limitation, yet the sentence itself is an assumption and a concept. All I know is that certain individuals achieved a different state of consciousness and through self-realization knew themselves. Maybe that fact is all one needs to know, that a higher state of consciousness is achievable.
Sounds good.
I recall now why I like Lewis so much. Thanks. And synchronistically (that a word?) it's exactly what I need to hear at the moment.
A., I'm glad.
Great Lewis quote! I wonder what he would've written if he had lived longer?
Or what and where his spirit is writing now?
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