I believe that this can be resolved if we stop seeing “things” as fixed substances or essences, Buddhist schools such as the Madhyamaka or the Yagācāra already warn us about this. Precisely the foundation of a “world of death” is the belief that there are fixed things that go away forever at some point, the concept of fixed essence has implicit the concept of limit, finitude, etc… I think it is logical to say That this vision of the world that we somehow have (fallen) makes reality “a death”, we throw a mental blanket over reality. What's more, I dare to speculate that all the Platonism that is used here is a theory that explains the functioning of this mind that we have, which creates (and that is why we see it) fixed essences, useful at some moments but not forever, causing us not to see the essence of reality. This mind that I am referring to is not any consciousness in a brain, nor is it an “energy that emanates from the Source”, nor is it a dimension of a subject, but it is literally reality, exactly the same as the mobile or stone that we see in the street.
Wow! The supratemporal fall makes so much sense! This is the first time I heard about this. Do you have any recommendations for where I could learn more about this? Preferably something not too complicated as I am kind of new to theology. Thanks!
“The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be." Jesus said, "Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”” - Gospel of Thomas, 18
I believe that this can be resolved if we stop seeing “things” as fixed substances or essences, Buddhist schools such as the Madhyamaka or the Yagācāra already warn us about this. Precisely the foundation of a “world of death” is the belief that there are fixed things that go away forever at some point, the concept of fixed essence has implicit the concept of limit, finitude, etc… I think it is logical to say That this vision of the world that we somehow have (fallen) makes reality “a death”, we throw a mental blanket over reality. What's more, I dare to speculate that all the Platonism that is used here is a theory that explains the functioning of this mind that we have, which creates (and that is why we see it) fixed essences, useful at some moments but not forever, causing us not to see the essence of reality. This mind that I am referring to is not any consciousness in a brain, nor is it an “energy that emanates from the Source”, nor is it a dimension of a subject, but it is literally reality, exactly the same as the mobile or stone that we see in the street.
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Wow! The supratemporal fall makes so much sense! This is the first time I heard about this. Do you have any recommendations for where I could learn more about this? Preferably something not too complicated as I am kind of new to theology. Thanks!
“The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be." Jesus said, "Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”” - Gospel of Thomas, 18