Reference: A Course on the Factors
KHTK Factor # 17: The forms appear beautiful or ugly based on the considerations of the viewpoint.
Buddha said, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
A person sees only what he considers, and not the totality of that reality. His reality is made up of what he has thought—good or bad. We cannot say that all that is good is the result of our thoughts, and all that is bad is the result of some other person’s thought.
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Scientology
Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.
Scientology Factor # 17. And the opinion of the viewpoint regulates the consideration of the forms, their stillness or their motion, and these considerations consist of assignment of beauty or ugliness to the forms and these considerations alone are art.
According to Hubbard, “One’s own universe is amenable to instantaneous creation and destruction, by himself and without argument.” This is not so. A person is bound by his own postulates that determine his individuality.
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Logic
We are trying to approximate the reality with our postulates and reasoning. When we assign our thoughts to somebody else, we think we are no longer responsible for those thoughts. That is the source of all that is bad.
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