March 9 2020
KL said: ‘Man and woman enjoy individuated consciousness. Man, and his vessel do not incorporate tools necessary to birth child nor does woman have physical capacity to impregnate. By design these simple conditions are purposefully differentiated and exist as separate conscious identities. Manipulation is bad plan, will have inevitably disastrous result. Man and woman r not the same and exist collectively as species yet as a subset r independent. Gender is immutable natural law. Manipulation will create undesirable consequence.” 1) “Man and woman enjoy individuated consciousness”;
Response: ALL human beings possess a consciousness. A man’s versus woman’s consciousness is NOT more enjoyable than the other. The results of good and evil deeds are what will produce rewards of either happiness or suffering, accordingly.
KL said: “Man and his vessel do not incorporate tools necessary to birth child nor does woman have physical capacity to impregnate…and exist as separate conscious identities. By design these simple conditions r purposefully differentiated.”
Response: The classification of the way human beings come into existence is a form of birth and does NOT constitute a “condition.” We come into existence the way we do because we are MAMMALS. Consciousness is NOT differentiated in terms of gender, but in terms of the ability of discernment, comprehension or perception that all human beings share. Viewed from a state of life, human beings is what does constitute a “condition,” of HUMANITY; where both men and women can control instinctive desires with reason and act in a humane fashion, and has NOTHING TO DO with their differentiation in terms of gender.
KL said: “Manipulation is bad plan, will have inevitably disastrous result.. “Man and woman r not the same and exist collectively as species yet as a subset r independent.”
Response: What is CHARACTERISTIC of the “CONDITION OF HUMANITY” is the desire for self-improvement and to seek a higher state of life. “INFLUENCE” is a function of life, and manipulation is a form of influence. Every form of influence is NOT evil, but without constant effort to acquire self-control, human beings will regress and fall into the “lower conditions,” e.g. hell, a state of life marked by suffering and despair, where what governs the person is the impulse to destroy both himself and others; or e.g. a state of behaving as an animal would, where one follows the pull of desires and instincts, and turns totally toward self-preservation and immediate profit, lacking the wisdom of self-control. This can happen when human beings use their INFLUENCE in the course of their activities to produce an effect that is evil in a relationship. “Relation” is also a function in life; it is what forms a relationship with a set of conditions and the cause to produce an effect. Greed, anger and STUPIDITY are fundamental evils in life that give rise to human suffering and are the source of all illusions and earthly desires; they contaminate the lives of human beings to the point that it can prevent both men and women from turning their hearts and minds to goodness. Greed, anger and stupidity are the underlying CAUSES of famine, war, and pestilence. Essentially, nothing has an independent existence of its own or arise in isolation. I abide in the truth of the non-substantiality of all phenomena, i.e. interdependence of all things or dependent origination, where no beings or phenomena exist on their own, where they exist or occur only because of their RELATIONSHIP with other beings and phenomena, and where everything in the world comes into existence in response to causes and CONDITIONS.
KL said: “Gender is immutable natural law. Manipulation will create undesirable consequence.”
Response: Gender as an immutable natural law is subject to ambiguity; it cannot be a body of unchanging moral standards or principles derived from a code of conduct of a particular philosophy, religion or culture to form as the basis for all human conduct, because the basis for human conduct is different from one philosophy, religion or culture to another; and moral standards or principles are NOT what correspond to the spiritual aspect of a person. What corresponds to the spiritual aspects of a person are their mental functions, such as their perception, conception, volition and consciousness, i.e. their spirituality and how it functions to respond to their surroundings. Because “life” constitutes a subjective self that experiences the effects of its past actions, and “its environment” is an objective realm in an individual’s causal rewards find their expression, then gender is a result of the effects of the subjective self and the environment is the objective realm where an individual finds their causal reward as either a male or female. I am saying that because the self and environment are two integral aspects of an individual. Manipulation creates undesirable consequences due to the INFLUENCE of delusions, where the capacity to dispel illusions, and develop wisdom changes into ignorance. A transformation into a man or a woman is NOT a condition for possessing the potential for a state of perfect freedom. Neither is waiting for rebirth in a different physical form. All individuals can awaken to the eternal and ultimate truth that is the reality of all things in their present form, a supreme state of life characterized by boundless wisdom and infinite compassion. What obscures this nature are illusions and evil causes. The fusion of one’s objective reality or truth and the subjective wisdom to realize that truth is the internal cause or potential that represents the attainment of this condition of life. “A liar never becomes a truthful person simply because one calls him honest.” — ND