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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Not a believer, not a non-believer, just a questioner.
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Which is not the unhealthiest of attitudes, as long as it does not stop you from deciding and taking responsibility for the consequences.
Zen spirit - beginner's spirit.
In the end, all world, and all that we call event and universe, is just inside our head, a dance of electric pulses that chemically and electrically race down our neurons' network, and for some reasons we do not know our brain from all that chaos forms not an image of chaos, but comes up with an idea of higher order, shows colour and clear form, sound and taste, emotion and perception. Our eye is uncapable to produce clear images, the lense and all that does not allow that, is not clean and precise enough. Nevertheless our brain forms a clear image. How can that be when it never has had opportunity to experience anything that could serve as a precedent example for standardisation of later visual input to make it appear "clear and sharp"?
The world is in our heads. We do not discover reality - we construct it. It's all maybe only pure mind, pure idea.
Pure mystery, or pure magic, if you want. Much more fascinating than anything written in holy books. Why is all this so? Who is looking through my eyes? Who is the witness, the one who is even watching at himself when I become aware I reflect about myself?
We all are just like that boy "playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before us."