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Self
Outside myself i do not exist, my thoughts do not exist. I do not exist in memories as these are personal perceptions and biased things ppl remember which are lies.
Every moment of my being is brought upon by other forces, my mood, how i wake, what i think. In essence nothing is me.. nothign is personal.. and everything is influenced upon me.. a sea of endless garbage. i am the product of a neverending cycle of trash.
I have died before i was born, and i have 1 path.. i do not exist.. past myself and therefore am singular..
who am i? i aren't.. I am another clone,the endless wave moved in any direction i am influenced by the wind.
Every moment of my being is brought upon by other forces, my mood, how i wake, what i think. In essence nothing is me.. nothign is personal.. and everything is influenced upon me.. a sea of endless garbage. i am the product of a neverending cycle of trash.
I have died before i was born, and i have 1 path.. i do not exist.. past myself and therefore am singular..
who am i? i aren't.. I am another clone,the endless wave moved in any direction i am influenced by the wind.
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...And you are not this, either....
How can you be a clone of something that wasn't there in the first place?
Anyway, I try not to dwell on the idea or lack there of in regards to the Self. I have no belief in such a thing or a soul for that matter. However, my personal ethics are very much concerned with the 'individual'. And how can they not be?
All my ideas on philosophy, political theory, and ethics center around what is referred to as the 'individual.' I have no problem with doing so. Talk of being nothing and not being seems rather useless to me and doesn't really lead anywhere. (Maybe that's the point) Whether someone thinks of themseleves as an 'endless cycle of trash', the 2nd Coming, or nothing at all, I believe the individual does matter.
Imagine a giant mould.. except u fill certain parts to a limitless level and other parts less so.. u have no control over where it goes... its in constant flux.. made by the culture , way of living and things .... because you are individual and alone, you still are simply a product of all around you.. and in that case.. just a collection of lies. Outside these lies, is there anything you can measure yourself by? Outside yourself can you measure yourself?
did anyone watch channel 4.. the guy who was in a coma for 20 years? there was a guy later on, who was in a car accident and damaged his frontal lobes.. he is now unable to feel pleasure or pain.. and gets easily annoyed and frustrated.. he can't care or love anyone.. and as such he could easily kill his wife and son and feel nothing... in any way.. he lives in a kinda void. And is such unable to work or do much at all.. give him a gun and he could easily go on a killing spree like it was getting teh groceries,,,
If outside yourself you do not exist, then how can your ancestors reside in you, as well as your ascendents (should you procreate, that is)?
Is it not more aptly to say that one is but a symptom of the universe? If apple trees apples, then does it follow that the cosmos peoples?
Why isn't cancer seen as symptom, rather then a disease? What is disease other than discomfort?
Look deeper to the four folds, my friend.:winkc:
My ancesters are nothing more than some dead ppl that i owe some genes to.
"oooohhh, so sure is he, mmmmhhhmmm ( in Yoda style )..........., solid in conviction he is.............":skeptical
I had the thought arise sometime back, that mine is to heal those things that my ancestors hadn't the capacity to. One is only microcismic or macrocosimic to one's understanding of which they had little, yet in that ingorance was bliss.
As I give energy to resentments or resentiments a stain is left on all I touch. The more repeatedly it is touched the deeper it resides, such is samsara. Left unchecked / or noticed and released may become a structural psychic groove.
Oh really, now.
More like a tree dropped on you and knocked the wind out, maybe?
Or was it a piano?
See you in the lotus lounge.:om:
Unloading an entire delivery into a -20 degree freezer don't help
yea ive started reading thich nhat hahn again, somethign bout his writings calm my heart
which?
probs the best ones to direct myself to.. I'd read more of tibetan book of living or dieing but its a pretty heavy book if u know what i mean.. i've learnt from it.. but by god is it heavy.
I feel like this is dangerous thinking. I agree with Brigid on this, the Buddha's teaching is not at all like this way of thinking. The Buddha's teaching is for you to own yourself, to have control over that which you can have control over (your morality), then to move on to the level of cultivating non-clinging to that which you cannot have control over. This Buddha's path is for self-realization, for going home to your native territory. One of the similes about this is the idea of a king who is sovereign in his home land, but who, perhaps, has wandered into another kingdom and fails to exercise any sovereignty therein. If he could only realize this and return to his native land, his ancestral home... On this point I will say that I agree with Zenmonk, this is the role of meditation. Meditation is your ancestral home, or at least the quest to find it again.
in friendliness,
V.
Basically, even if this is a genuine insight you've had (& I've had similar ones), it doesn't change a thing. You get beaten over the head with a stick it still hurts. You insult someone & they still experience suffering. You have a scattered mind, then you still have a scattered mind. Now, this insight may hopefully uproot some ego-clinging on your part & I think if you applied it to those people who you have such negative opinions of, you might see that those negative opinionss are based on incorrect perceptions. You may also feel more fortunate in your position & more compassionate towards them.
Anyway, best wishes & metta
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Have you read this thread that I statred at Buddha Chat on transfromation meditations?
http://www.buddhachat.org/forum/showthread.php?t=362
In Gassho