[Buddha-l] The measure of things (from our website)

[John Willemsens]

We do not believe that the human regime, let alone any particular aspect of 
it, such as the advance of human understanding, is the measure of things in 
space and time, but that the whole of infinite existence is. We are 
convinced that the objective of the Middle Way expounded by the Buddha as 
the correct existential attitude is the abandonment of all fixed views and 
to reconnect and reconcile us with overall existence and that the Middle Way 
in its dynamic Noble Eightfold Path form must be seen as an ongoing 
reflexion at the level of our personal lives of overall existence becoming 
over time now in its right direction. In Advayavada Buddhism to follow the 
Eightfold Path is therefore not seen as a means to become something else in 
the future, but indeed as the way to become rightaway as overall existence 
becoming over time here and now. It is this process of being as existence 
now that we experience in human terms as progress and which makes us 
conclude, by induction if you will, that indifferent overall existence, also 
expressed purely in terms of human perception and experience, progresses as 
well. Nirvana is when we experience our own existence in the present moment 
as being completely in tune with existence as a whole becoming over time 
now. To experience our own existence thus causes the total extinction of all 
suffering as a direct result of our full reconciliation with reality as it 
truly is.
John Willemsens.
http://www.euronet.nl/~advaya/qanda.htm