From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 10:33:28 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> > One example is philosopher Arnold Zuboff, who in a paper called
> > "Moment Universals and Personal Identity" (not available online),
> ### Very good point. The idea of the fundamental unity of all
> consciousness was also previously expressed in Buddhism in the concept
of
> anatman (the non-soul).
In western terms this idea is similar or identical to pantheism. I
considered myself a pantheist for many years.
A distinction needs to be made here between embracing a belief in the
fundamental unity of all consciousness and rejecting the logical duality
of self/other. To embrace a belief in the unity of all consciousness is
to *transcend* the self/other distinction but it is not to *reject* it
in any logical sense. The Zen Master knows the distinction between
transcendence and rejection; he knows his identity is different from
that of his student.
-gts
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