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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 2, 2023 7:44:37 GMT -5
...bumped for laughter... This is partly a response to a current thread. Take a clean white piece of typing paper. This essentially represents our primordial nature, pure, clean, unconditioned, attentive, aware. Everything that enters the brain/body through the five senses is recorded in the neural structure of the brain. For each impression that enters, each sound, each touch, each taste, each image and each smell, draw a line on that clean paper. Eventually that clean paper gets completely covered over, no white showing. This represents our ego. Now, the clean white paper still exists under all that ink and lead, in and of itself, it's unobstructed. That clean white paper represents our true self, variously called Buddha-Mind, no-mind, no-self, Self, the unborn or who you were before your parents were born. So, what happens between birth and about six years of age? We forget our real nature and tie our identity to the contents of our neural structure, we become our ego. Thomas Merton called this mistaken identity, false self. Most people live the remainder of their lives through this false sense of self. What happens to all the energy that enters the organism after ego is formed? It goes into keeping ego alive, ego takes everything, ego takes all our attention, all of our awareness. The question on the table is, Is there a way to get back to living through our uncorrupted nature? sdp
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