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Real World Example of the Interconnectedness of Being

Sydney’s had some pretty messed up weather of late; the bush fires have already started for the summer.

Whilst driving home this afternoon, I saw one of the most amazing sunsets I’ve seen in recent time (so captivating, I got out my phone for a basic snap).

What stood out about this simply amazing sunset was the cause of it. It was not of itself. It was the result of another system at work. It was interconnectedness with the bushfires. The beauty in the sky was the direct result of the ugly/destructive bush fires. The smoke from the fires filled the sky to transform the sky into something amazing. Now we all know bushfires aren’t good, but every single person driving home took note of this amazing sunset, and felt lighter/happier for seeing it. If those people then go home and have a nice conversation with their family, that’s a pretty amazing, and logical result. All due to the bush fires(which obviously started by something, external to itself…it all goes round)

[...] Whilst reading this article by Frank H Knight from Vol48, No.1 Feb 1940, I came across some stunning confirmations of knowldege and self. The more broadly I read, the more the same answers appear to keep coming back. It’s fascinating. Below is a quote that re-enforced this point, which in it’s very essicence, is part of Indra’s Net, which is the buddhist display/concept for interconnectedness of being. nd if ordinary normal human beings habitually and systematically lied, or talked dream talk (or reported free association), there would be no possibility of any knowledge, or of the existence of minds or intelligence. There could be no “feeling” of truth or of reality; we could never form these notions, or have any communicable, and hence any intellectual, experience. “We” could not exist at all as minds or selves. There might, indeed, be animate beings, or animate objects, making biologically “correct” responses to their environment and to one another’s physical behavior. But anything that can properly be called knowledge on the part of any subject is unthinkable apart from self-knowledge and valid intercommunication with similar (competent and trustworthy) knowing selves, living, thinking, and acting in and in relation to a common world of not-self, which is the general object of knowledge. This naturally suggests the question as to how we do know (imperfectly, of course) the content of one another’s minds, or how we intercommunicate. Bookmark to: Tags: economics, self, knowledge, buddhism, indra [...]