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Yogi1
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we are leaves on the tree of life
#19094481 - 11/06/13 09:15 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Our short season is life and then we fall off as the tree hibernates. We feed our energy back in to the world.
If this is true of lower beings like plants where leaves die by season and trees appear to live immortally then why not us to something higher.
There are a lot of reasonable arguments but unfortunately we can never know even in death.
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: Yogi1]
#19094556 - 11/06/13 09:37 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seems likely.
We are not the be all and end all of the life force is my guess. Cause if we are then I'm not that impressed unless our evolution holds some real pleasant surprises.
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: Yogi1]
#19100361 - 11/07/13 12:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Yogi1 said: Our short season is life and then we fall off as the tree hibernates. We feed our energy back in to the world.
If this is true of lower beings like plants where leaves die by season and trees appear to live immortally then why not us to something higher.
There are a lot of reasonable arguments but unfortunately we can never know even in death
I like the analogy
Like you say what life actually is, the very highest, can not be known through thoughts, and it makes sense, because we can only think of appearances, we can not capture life itself in thought because life is already within the very act of trying to think about it, but one thing is for sure, whatever life is, you are it
Exist as the unknown
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: Chronic7]
#19100389 - 11/07/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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more like we are the cells of the tree of life! Each one working togeather to make the whole
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: Chronic7]
#19100393 - 11/07/13 12:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You know the we actually do not live nor die... we just are, have always been, and will allways be, in one form or another...
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: Icyus]
#19100399 - 11/07/13 12:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pretty awesome man! I've had some wild trips where I thought such.
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Yogi1
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: DarkPassenger]
#19105571 - 11/08/13 01:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was thinking about the ways some religions portray cycles of death among people, worlds, and even gods.
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: Yogi1]
#19108621 - 11/09/13 12:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I see the infinite chaos, and some strong branches holding on, giving a bit of elemental rambling about nothing, and then disintegration into more chaos which the weaker branches seded too silently... perhaps this chaos is the real tree, and the tree we feel that we spring from is actually the chaos? there was an age, aye, when we spoke with greater eloquence, I sense that collectively something has been scattered now, in the great formlessness it lies... bringing us to meditative silence.. in the space where we grasp for a philosophy, a clever phrase, an ideology, in that space where we grasp and find so little or nothing, we realize its not really about expressing it, everything just simply is-ing.... always
loving kindness
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Edited by Yesod (11/09/13 12:57 AM)
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Re: we are leaves on the tree of life [Re: Yesod]
#19111408 - 11/09/13 06:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ive used this tree analogy before. In my analogy i think we are each the tree. The tree is the infinite everything that is and isnt describable and indescribable. We are only aware of being maybe a leaf, or a branch, or other parts at times because of the limits our brain places on our perception. I feel like we are each everything but since we are each in human form, our perception is narrowed by our cognition and individual experiences. This to me is one of the greatest dualities ever. How we are all the same yet different. And how the universe is within us and without us.
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