That is interesting SadGame.
I don't think our minds require any kind of cleansing. To embrace a new idea, like this idea of the 'pure self', why would you need to eradicate things that you already know? As though there is something inherently 'wrong' with our minds, as they are?
There is nothing wrong with our brains! There is nothing they require cleansing of. It's not healthy to suggest that our brains are in some way dysfunctional.
Social conditioning is what allows us to live in the real world and form real life relationships with other people. No all conditioning is bad, just because it is conditioning. We could make an argument that language is bad, because it is something we had to learn from society. But without language, where would we be?
What Moo teaches is way too simplistic and it is misleading.
There may be such a thing as an eternal soul, but in order to come into contact with it, we shouldn't need to disconnect from reality!
I don't think our minds require any kind of cleansing. To embrace a new idea, like this idea of the 'pure self', why would you need to eradicate things that you already know? As though there is something inherently 'wrong' with our minds, as they are?
There is nothing wrong with our brains! There is nothing they require cleansing of. It's not healthy to suggest that our brains are in some way dysfunctional.
Social conditioning is what allows us to live in the real world and form real life relationships with other people. No all conditioning is bad, just because it is conditioning. We could make an argument that language is bad, because it is something we had to learn from society. But without language, where would we be?
What Moo teaches is way too simplistic and it is misleading.
There may be such a thing as an eternal soul, but in order to come into contact with it, we shouldn't need to disconnect from reality!