non-distinction

In late 2006, we conducted a panel on diversity, which included an intro by Charles Prebish that discussed in part the hybridization of Buddhism in America – the intermingling of different cultures to the point where the lines will blur into non-distinction.

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Mr. Hixon has the non-distinction of being attacked by Monsanto.

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Knowing that the editorial staff was opening itself up to legitimate cries of hypocrisy, this non-distinction had to be inserted:

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

Knowing that the editorial staff was opening itself up to legitimate cries of hypocrisy, this non-distinction had to be inserted:

From On High 2006

And, moreover, it being admitted (by the Sâ@nkhya also) that at the time of reabsorption the effect passes back into the state of non-distinction from the cause, the case of the Sâ@nkhya here also is the same as ours.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

Sûtra runs as follows: 'If non-distinction (of the Lord and the individual souls) is said to result from the circumstance of (the Lord himself) becoming an enjoyer (a soul), we refute this objection by instances from every-day experience.'

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

-- The/S/rî-bhâshya gives a totally different interpretation of the Sûtra, according to which the latter has nothing whatever to do with the eventual non-distinction of enjoying souls and objects to be enjoyed.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

And if you try to avoid this conclusion by assuming that at the time of reabsorption some individual differences pass into the state of non-distinction, others not, we reply that in that case the latter could not be considered as effects of the pradhâna [273].

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

In those states also the soul enters into an essential condition of non-distinction; nevertheless, wrong knowledge being not yet finally overcome, the old state of distinction re-establishes itself as soon as the soul awakes from its sleep or trance.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

-- With regard to the second objection, viz. that if we assume all distinctions to pass (at the time of reabsorption) into the state of non-distinction there would be no special reason for the origin of a new world affected with distinctions, we likewise refer to the 'existence of parallel instances.'

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881