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

[Fools Crow]

On Sep 2, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Joy Vriens wrote:

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> ***Can something virtual produce "real" results? And how real can  
> those results as long as we think they are real?
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> "In stead of doing initiations we could let ourselvers become
> addicted to specific bodhigames."
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> They already exist and are called mind traning (blo sbyong) etc. ;-)
>
> Joy

I would think so. One's expectations can be involved in the cause of  
what happens to her. One's idea of the nature of reality (which is  
always mistaken -- mind and memory imagery is always "virtual"). I am  
not what the difference could be between "reality" and "virtual  
reality" except with "reality" we probably share a higher proportion  
of our notions of "reality" than we do with our (or their) "virtual  
reality".

There, now. I have gone and confused myself again. I think I will  
rereae Ecco's Foucault Pendulum.

Fools Crow
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