Continuing from the last post, further evidence of Wilber's shentong view. From Integral Spirituality, Chapter 5, section "emptiness and view are not two":
"When
one is in deep meditation or contemplation, touching even that which is
formless and unmanifest—the purest emptiness of cessation—there are of
course no conceptual forms arising. This pure 'nonconceptual' mind—a
causal state of formlessness—is an essential part of our liberation,
realization, and enlightenment.... When it comes to the nature of
enlightenment or realization, this means that a complete, full, or
nondual realization has two components, absolute (emptiness) and
relative (form). The 'nonconceptual mind' gives us the former, and the
'conceptual mind' gives us the latter."
Appendix II, "the sliding scale of enlightenment":
“Enlightenment
is a union of both Emptiness and Form, or a union of Freedom and
Fullness. To realize infinite Emptiness is to be free from all finite
things, free from all pain, all suffering, all limitation, all
qualities—the via negativa that soars to a transcendental freedom from
the known, a nirvikalpa samadhi beyond desire and death, beyond pain and
time, longing and remorse, fear and hope, a timeless Dharmakaya of the
Unborn, the great Ayin or Abyss that is free from all finite qualities
whatsoever (including that one).”
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