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Originally Posted by Wax Frog  The spiritually-advanced folks all seem to say that the Great Truths (my term) can't be expressed in words, only experienced directly. All the systems and ideas we discuss here are thus like the blind men describing the elephant by the parts of it they're holding. Not the best analogy, but I think you'll get what I'm saying. 
Oh, and one other thing, from a partly-recovered 'addict' - "Aurė Entuluva!"  |
Indeed. It's the perfect cop-out!
But all semi-kidding aside, there are some concepts that are just impossible for me to imagine, like the idea that there has never been a beginning, you have always existed. It's easy to imagine eternity in the "have no end" directino, but not the other. Almost as hard is it to imagine that there has been a beginning, and there was nothing prior to that.
I like the idea of experiencing instead of just accepting something as fact. It's very Zen
