“Barlaam interpreting his apophatic theology as intellectual dialectic, and Gregory seeing it as concerned with the ineffable experience of God” (1) …
Western logic can understand God…
Eastern intuition believes we can only feel God…
Small moments, defining who we are.
A conflict long gone.
Influencing us still…
Εάλω η Πόλις…
Of course, logic of any kind is flawed as a finite mind cannot comprehend the Infinite.
Indeed. It can only grasp glimpses through intuition…
Humans attempting to understanding God, the Dao, the All, is impossible. As a pre-requisite, we would need to have a direct knowledge of every being’s experience of existence, spiritual, physical, plus every other aspect of existence we have no comprehended.
God is All and None. Words are always only pointers that invoke certain Ideas in our minds. Logic is a human thing, bound by linear time. Non-linear time, which is spiritual, shatters logic completely. If that was not enough, God is beyond all dualities, beyond linear and non-linear, material and spiritual, Yin and Yang, et cetera. Even paradoxes are comfortably resolved.
I dare say that even intuition does not take us to the Godhead, or rather, cannot. It can put us in touch with our higher, timeless Spirit, but God is far beyond even that. No being can comprehend the One that underlies all being. It is the Mystery of mysteries…