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If there could be a God, couldn't people experience him?
- Thread starter Man of Faith
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waitasec
Veteran Member
the spirit is ego...
the spirit struggles to survive..
which is why your ego is trying to convince me i'm wrong...
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Escaping needn't be the antithesis of accepting.life is ego. existence is ego. trying to better oneself is ego. survival is ego.
you cannot escape it. accept it, unless your ego won't allow you to
Ask yourself, are you the universe? If the answer comes back firmly, "No," that's ego talking. "I'm me, not everything."
Ego is necessarily ignorant of your role as everything (and nothing). It thinks your role is it.
waitasec
Veteran Member
As sensible as:
Purple is pink
Knowledge struggles to know
which is why your ego is trying to convince me i'm wrong...
Knowledge is doing the convincing. Wrongness is an illusion. Ego sees it as 'only reality that matters.'
Ha ha. I am genuinely sorry, if you really consider the ego and yourself as same. And that was the point.
I am sorry, my friend. There was no intention to demean.
Nah, it's just ego who thinks she is.
sorry i'm so dense.
Ego is a thief and a trickster. It takes possession of things, even (especially) things that it doesn't own (like just now, when it stole a bit of confusion from the universe and claimed it for "you"). Most people are reluctant to accept the way in which they are one of those things so claimed*. Buddhism talks about attachment-this and attachment-that --"attachment" (to things) is the work of the ego, it's job per se, and some things it actually gets stuck onto, glued quite firmly in place (reference "fixating").
We are what our knowledge is. Memory has collected bits, and ego has attached itself to them, and the result is "you" (and "me").
*see "possessed"
waitasec
Veteran Member
Nah, it's just ego who thinks she is.
Ego is a thief and a trickster. It takes possession of things, even (especially) things that it doesn't own (like just now, when it stole a bit of confusion from the universe and claimed it for "you"). Most people are reluctant to accept the way in which they are one of those things so claimed*. Buddhism talks about attachment-this and attachment-that --"attachment" (to things) is the work of the ego, it's job per se, and some things it actually gets stuck onto, glued quite firmly in place (reference "fixating").
We are what our knowledge is. Memory has collected bits, and ego has attached itself to them, and the result is "you" (and "me").
*see "possessed"
does buddhism talk about the attachment the body has to breathing?
Body does not breathe. A part of body is used as springboard by the person to create spandan (perturbation) that is life.
waitasec
Veteran Member
ok i'm done...
That's a dependence, of one thing on another. We were talking about attachment and the ego --is this dependence relevant? Ego has claimed a body, a breath, and a relationship between them (dependence).
Go ego.
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body isn't what makes the person breathe...the person uses the diaphragm to keep the hearth alive.
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PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
The body will keep breathing if the brain is damaged. Quite possibly it will keep breathing even if you take the brain out entirely.
That's right. But I was talking of the person on whose leaving all organs, including brain, fall silent -- eventually. Organs need oxygen-air to keep the hearth alive and thus keep on moving as per natural law of inertia for sometime. But often organs may die or be caused to die by yogis to mitigate pain of oxygen hunger in organs, at the time of spirit leaving the body.
The above is as per scripture and my personal observation of yogis. But that the body does not breathe on its own can be experienced by little contemplation. Body is made to breathe. The rationale behind conscious regulation of breathing in yoga practise is an application of this knowledge -- for regulating breath to regulate the mind and also cure bodily ills arisen out of disturbed psyche.
waitasec
Veteran Member
waitasec
Veteran Member
Egoistic, and yes.you are so egotistical...
I just tested this, and found out it is not the case. Fortunately, I got the brain back in there in time, so no harm.