RELI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spider Web, Upanishads, Vedas
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What you do is not who you are. Spider web: spider"s (cid:449)e(cid:271) has a (cid:272)e(cid:374)ter like a (cid:272)ir(cid:272)le, the center is an empty hole, yet the entire web was manifested from it. Discovered connection between existence and nonexistence: nonexistence is no limit. No thing: no limited thing (atman) Two kinds of darkness: dark room, stare at the sun so long that everything looks black. The one has no limits: does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a (cid:374)a(cid:373)e. Heaven is not god, heaven is where we encounter god: ex. The one comes from a kind of darkness that is beyond all forms. Hinduism has statues of people with two eyes closed and one eye on their forehead open: they are divine by eliminating all dualities and just seeing the one, the one is a reality. Hindu people place both hands together and bow when they meet others. They are seeing everything as atman: they do(cid:374)"t see people, they see the o(cid:374)e.