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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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.
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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There is a point, in my experience, where you will "find out". That said, all bodies are bodies, whether physical or not, and they will all end.
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to rest in the eternal you have to give up everything non eternal. And for most people that's everything they think they are.
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