Imagine: Our world is constructed by sets of contradiction interwined, overlaped and crashed each other to form another contradiction of it. Would it then eventually find its pure synthesis which produce a world with a pure one thought. Could unity be produced by difference and subjectvity? If in dialectical triadic could eventually form a world which is constituted in synergization, then there will be no more subjectivity of subjects, or perhaps the world may left only one pure being which possess full of self-knowledge without any lack in him. Maybe then the universe end with god-like characteristic, or perhaps, the God Himself.
See: Hegel.
Self knowledge?
What does it matter if you are not there? Take away self and what is there is knowledge. There will always be knowl;edge. It is our common inheritance. It belongs to everyone , like the air we breath. You can wear part of it for a while, take that off and wear something else. The self doesn’t change … it basically stays the same.
this relies on the presupposition that self is a metaphysical transcendental ‘entity’ which is not defined by its actions, its body or its thoughts… I disagree basically… there is no way to know if self is ‘transcendental’ [although, it does transcend the present moment to be sure - what is conceptualising if not transcendence?] in terms of: I is complete and never changing - as far as ‘I’ am concerned, or am able to ‘know’ - I am changed by every new species of knowledge I happen upon…
You are what you are because of all the things that thinking has produced for you, and that have cost you much time and effort. Therefore, you also assume that every result achieved by means of thinking necessarily requires time. And it is this principle that shifts the whole business away from you and says: ‘this situation is hopeless, we need time’, because time has helped to reach results in all the previous situations.
You can not do anything else except interpret. That is unavoidable because that is all you can do by means of thinking. And, you have no other instrument. It is that same instrument that discovered the ‘phenomenon’ of intuition, and ‘understanding intuitively’ and whatsoever other lofty things that you can name.
So, the only thing that you can do is understand things at the level of thinking. There is no other level of understanding, and in spite of the fact that all your attempts to understand this have generally not helped, you still keep on hoping that this instrument will be of some use in understanding things, maybe tomorrow, next time, Tuesday, Wednesday, next year, hmmm? Thus, this is not the instrument for understanding anything.
That is the first thing that has to penetrate you, that thinking is not the instrument. Without even worrying about another instrument. ‘This is not the instrument’, that is enough. And if this is really the situation in which you find yourself, is there anything else to understand? No, there is nothing else to understand.
As long as you are searching for a goal, and as long as you are searching for meaning you will remain wandering around restlessly. ‘There must after all be something meaningful to do, something with more content, something more interesting than what I’m doing now’, you tell yourself. And the only thing you can do is to change yourself, hmm? But in reality there is no possibility of changing. The only change takes place in your thought structure, you begin to think differently and therefore to experience and feel things differently. Basically however everything remains exactly as it was. You can change your clothes and only wear the most ‘fashionable’ clothing just to be ‘in’, but inside you are still the same. Wanting to understand is only useful for changing small things in yourself. There is nothing you can do to change the past. In the hope of changing things in the future, you remain with the present, which is in fact the past.
I used to think the same way, that the things that really change are our thought which eventually influence everything including our bodily experiences. But the essencial structure of the reality that we live in is binded to flow of time, and time changes, alters and thus replaces. We are new every ‘after present’ we live in, every ‘after current state’ that we experience. Such is not an illusion of our mind, but everything that exist in space, since space and time depend on each other, the alteration of time is then the alteration of what inside space, everything including our mind. And thus, everything doesnt remain exactly as it was, they change, and even we could not fully beleive our experiences, but still, that possibly false visualization and other things that present their existence by all means influence our thought. There is no “I”, its just a concept, the body and mind that this “I” possess experience change.