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Impermanence And Life
- Thread starter Salty Booger
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Nothing. Nothing is permanent.
Yes, some folks say the self or the soul is permanent, but when I hear such things I think, "They're not looking for themselves. They're just taking someone else's word for it, just following someone."
If you look for yourself, everything you can see is, in the end, impermanent.
And, in my opinion, thankfully so.
Yes, some folks say the self or the soul is permanent, but when I hear such things I think, "They're not looking for themselves. They're just taking someone else's word for it, just following someone."
If you look for yourself, everything you can see is, in the end, impermanent.
And, in my opinion, thankfully so.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Yet life continues.
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
the ongoing story of creation with its inevitable decay due to entropy....over and over again....to no clear definable end.
I think by "life" you must mean some relatively high-level abstraction. Surely you do not mean the bacterium on the top of the period at the end of this sentence who happens to be winking at us, do you? For concrete, tangible, living things -- as opposed to life in the abstract -- are constantly being born, changing, and dying, are they not?
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
I mean an ongoing process. When we or any other organism dies, there most certainly be another to replace us.
I would suggest that to see that "ongoing process" as continuous, and therefore unitary, is to see it through a lens of abstraction.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Call it what you will, it is a fact that life is an ongoing process taking place on a sphere of rock somewhere in the Universe--conscious and evolving.
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
to what end and to whose benefit is still the open question.
I can't agree with your interpretation of that "ongoing process". I'll leave it at that.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Assuming that life is worth living, I would assume to the benefit of you and I.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
No pressure. They are simply opinions.
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
what was it they say about making assumptions again......
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Right on, it goes with out question, right?what was it they say about making assumptions again......
Samael_Khan
Qigong / Yang Style Taijiquan / 7 Star Mantis
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
A mere human, as one defines one's self...certainly.
In pragmatic reality, nothing is unchanging. From this perspective, everything has a beginning and everything has an end.
I agree with you that this is generally the case, but as with everything, your mileage may vary.