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
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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!
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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