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**Pdarasenko** · 06-23-2011, 03:37 PM

Hi Element,
My take on this is that it applies fully within the framework of this very experience, in this body, here and now. Sometimes the Buddha refers to this as "the all." It is everything that we have to work with; anything we don't have to work with is not relevant to the path.
All of these polarities (self/other, past/future, existence/nonexistence, here/there) all are part of the geometry and orientation deriving from ignorance. Until we fully penetrated ignorance, we might not even see how deeply these polarities go, how much a part of our basic assumptions they are.
They are all fabrications.

06-23-2011, 03:37 PM	#2
Pdarasenko Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 534 Senior Member	Hi Element, My take on this is that it applies fully within the framework of this very experience, in this body, here and now. Sometimes the Buddha refers to this as "the all." It is everything that we have to work with; anything we don't have to work with is not relevant to the path. All of these polarities (self/other, past/future, existence/nonexistence, here/there) all are part of the geometry and orientation deriving from ignorance. Until we fully penetrated ignorance, we might not even see how deeply these polarities go, how much a part of our basic assumptions they are. They are all fabrications.
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