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Docta Ignorantia LXVII Evidence When we see that everything is attached to the Ground, we do not ask for evidence because we see it. We are adwaitins, non-dualists. When we see that some things are attached to the Ground, occasions arise when we feel a need for evidence and we dig it up ourselves. We are vashista-adwaitins, qualified non-dualists. When we see only things without attachments -- and, obviously, we don't see the Ground -- we feel a continual need for evidence and pester any and all to provide it for us. We are dualists. However, operationally, the only evidence we will accept is that generated by our own senses and even this we don't trust because we know the senses to be among the world's crudest and least reliable evidence gatherers because their operation is closely affected by realms of the personality which have little and often negative interest in evidence collection. And even when we get evidence, it doesn't give lasting stability because, lacking sight of the Ground and everything's connection to It, we are unable to grasp its integration. When we are dualists, therefore, our requests for evidence are trivial. There is one other circumstance in which we ask for evidence. That is the occasion upon which our fundamental stochastic structure has received such a jolt from the reverberations of a fresh insight that our entire cognitive array is temporarily -- and usually seriously -- destabilized while we look for the whats, wherefores and wheretos.
Adwaitha Hermitage
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