Monday, February 23, 2009
Freedom From Perception.
When a person professes to want to be free from misery, what does that person want to profess? Does he want to profess, to be free from the thrall of perception? After all, it is perception, which makes him miserable. What is perception? Is hearing, a more important perception than sight? When we deduce, and adduce, do we hear more than we see, or do we see more than we hear? What about the sense of touch, when we see and hear? I believe, that touch, sight, smell, and hearing are the same perception. A man who regards his sense of sight more than his sense of hearing, does he deduce and adduce more than a person, who regards his sense of hearing, more than his sense of sight? Is the sense of sight, superior than the sense of hearing? Does a blind man not see? Does a man, who cannot 'smell', not smell? What causes a man to loose sight, and sense of smell? Does not a blind man, see darkness, and does not a man who does not smell, smell what cannot be smelled? Does not a human being want freedom from the thralls of the very perceptions of the senses, that make him enjoy the sense objects, at one time or another? How can a person be free from the thralls of the senses? Is a blind man free from the thrall of the sense of sight? Is a deaf man, free from the thrall of the sense of hearing? What can cause a man, to be free from the thrall of the senses? I do not believe, that the senses can cause a person to be free from the thrall of the senses. Then what can cause a person to be free from the captivity of the senses? Not the disregard of the senses? Nor the regard of the senses? How does one neither disregard, nor regard the senses? By not trusting the senses? How does one not trust the senses? Would a man who sees a ghost, trust his senses? Do we trust our senses? If we can wish our senses away, in misery, then are we not very fickle in our trust?
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