An interesting observation this evening in a conversation where "getting old" was a topic, yet the concept seemed difficult to relate to in the context of unchanging experiencing. I suddenly realized I had actually become identified with being this unchanging display experiencing
Do you see this as a potential ‘eternalistic’ pitfall - a denial of your basic humanity - or is this identification something you find is helpful and desirable? Does your model rely on some sort of continuity of ‘clear’ after human body dies? Thanks Jim. Always interesting!
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This touches on an interesting conversation I had with a friend. We have very different interpretations of ‘that which goes beyond birth and death’, ‘the unborn’ - and yet we practice in a very similar way.
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I've had a range of interpretations myself, although prior to recognizing and appreciating the possibilities that display and being self-aware-display-experiencing contribute to those possibilities none of the prior puzzling interpretations actually made any sense to me.
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I'm really not clear why so many spiritual types are convinced that everything dies with the body and use eternal as a criticism. The body dies, stuff dies with it, but that everything dies, not justified imo.
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Sure - but I’ve met plenty of people who take the possibility of something not dying, and cling onto it with a death-grip, thus driving their behaviour and beliefs in all sorts of funny directions. It actually amplifies their suffering and anxiety. It can remain open hypothesis.
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Thanks for your tweet. Serious informed questions are rare and appreciated.
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