[Buddha-l] Natural lucidity for all, a Buddhist dream

[Fools Crow]

On Sep 2, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Richard Hayes wrote:

> On Saturday 02 September 2006 11:33, Fools Crow wrote:
>
>> One's idea of the nature of reality (which is
>> always mistaken -- mind and memory imagery is always "virtual").

>> Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by "mistaken" in  
>> this context?

Well, just for starters, lets both admit that whatever I am about to  
say is probably mistaken. I imagine that what one sees as one's  
"reality" is usually based on such stuff as experience, education,  
memories, etc. I don't know about you, but my whole life I have  
occasionally caught myself editing experience, even at the moment of  
experiencing it, for the big movie at the end of the world when the  
lord hisself will reveal all our peccadilloes, large and small. (I  
had the misfortune of experiencing a conservative version of Baptist  
Evangelicalism as a child.) So I suppose that I shouldn't take my  
experience or memory too terribly seriously since I know for sure  
that it was edited by an amateur on the input side. And on the output  
side it is even worse, since I can be proven to have misremembered  
several or several dozen items nearly every day (by a person or  
persons that I assume remember them correctly). So, I reckon maybe  
what I mean by "mistaken" in this context is that my view of  
"reality" may or may not have much in common with the reality of  
others or with any presumed "facts" if there are such things as  
"facts".  Having had some dealings with law enforcement I know, for  
example, that eye-witness evidence is just about the worst damned  
evidence a person can find. And our own lives are nothing much more  
than our own eye-witness accounts added to and modified by whatever  
"hearsay" evidence we have been subjected to by our parents, our  
teachers, our reading, and (to return a moment to the original  
subject of this thread) our dreams.

So maybe the whole thing is just one great big terrible mistake? Whom  
should we go to for an apology?

Fools Crow
foolscrow at marmotpress.org