The Wisdom of C.S. Lewis
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them--never become even conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
posted by Gr8fulTed at 6:34 AM
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Yes, our experience of reality is highly filtered-out at all times. There's an old adage that 'the more you know, the more there is to know' or 'the more you understand, the more you understand how little you understand.' Perhaps Buddhahood is a state of experiencing reality as directly and pristinely as possible...
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