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More this than the others.is to let go of self and individual a process of discovery about a deeper reality?
Yes & no.If I let go of self am I still an individual?
Yes & no.Is the individual an illusion?
Yes & no.is to let go of self and individual a process of discovery about a deeper reality?
If I let go of self am I still an individual?
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Is the individual an illusion?
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is to let go of self and individual a process of discovery about a deeper reality?
If I let go of self am I still an individual?
Is the individual an illusion?
is to let go of self and individual a process of discovery about a deeper reality?
If I let go of self am I still an individual?
Or
Is the individual an illusion?
Or
is to let go of self and individual a process of discovery about a deeper reality?
Actually, approaching it from this angle will lead to the development of a thicket of views that becomes a hindrance to doing the real work: observing within: "this is dukkha, this is how dukkha arises, this is how dukkha ends. This is a path of practice for the ending of dukkha."If I let go of self am I still an individual?
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Is the individual an illusion?
Or
is to let go of self and individual a process of discovery about a deeper reality?
Just find out what and then who it is that is asking these questions and there is nothing left to know.
Actually, approaching it from this angle will lead to the development of a thicket of views that becomes a hindrance to doing the real work: observing within: "this is dukkha, this is how dukkha arises, this is how dukkha ends. This is a path of practice for the ending of dukkha."
Where would you go?If I let go of self am I still an individual?
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Is the individual an illusion?
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is to let go of self and individual a process of discovery about a deeper reality?
I would end up right back where i am.Where would you go?
It's like ringing a bell. "Ding"I would end up right back where i am.
It's like ringing a bell. "Ding"
"Self" is the sound ego makes.
For how long?Yes but there still is a me without the ego
It is true that the 'I' can never transcend duality, but the cosmic source of your being does not disappear at the death of the body as does the ego consciousness because it exists beyond the conception of 3D space and time.Is that a buddhist answer. I find individuality inescapable
Yeah. It's likened by which the unaided eye cannot see itself yet sees none the less, and the koan asking the question, "What is your original face"?It is true that the 'I' can never transcend duality, but the cosmic source of your being does not disappear at the death of the body as does the ego consciousness because it exists beyond the conception of 3D space and time.
There is THAT which was never born, nor created, nor did it evolve, if it were not so, there would never be any liberation from being born, or created, or evolving. - Buddha saying..
For how long?