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Re: strange thoughts about "attachment" [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #7514136 - 10/13/07 11:39 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

i'll take your word for it :smile:


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Re: strange thoughts about "attachment" [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7518730 - 10/15/07 09:04 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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EternalCowabunga said:
How can we distinguish what we identify with from what is actually ourselves?





I stopped reading from there, as I suppose that is the question you wish to have addressed.

There is form. There is an almost infinite variety of form. There is eye form, nose form, ear form, mouth form, body form, and mind form (concepts and ideas).

There are feelings. There are basically pleasant/unpleasant/neither. Happiness or sex would be considered pleasant, and sadness or fighting would be unpleasant (as it causes harm). Neither is a state of no conditions: equanimity (which is actually very hard to do without repressing our thoughts - which is unbeneficial).

There are perceptions. Perceptions based on ignorance, and perceptions based on understanding.

There are thoughts. Thoughts of the past, thoughts of the future, and thoughts grounded in the present moment.

There are consciousnesses. Eye consciousness, nose consciousness, ear consciousness, mouth consciousness, body consciousness, mind consciousness.

None of these things has an owner; they are just present. It is when we ascribe ownership to them, that we cling to these aggregates, and an identity is created.

We mentally form the thought, "This is my body." Ok... then stop aging, and don't ever get sick again. It isn't possible, because it is not your body, the body merely exists naturally, like a tree or insect. They didn't ask to come into being. They came into being because the conditions were right for them to arise.

There are two truths. A conventional truth, and an "ultimate" truth. The conventional truth is that there is indeed a self. The "ultimate" truth is that there truly is no self, that "self" is merely the sum of these aggregates, and that it is compounded like the layers of an onion.


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my wick will burn out.
But, the fire of my mind
shall beam into infinite.



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