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Originally Posted by northstar
this of course only worked well for me WS.... look at it this way... in my 20s i was young, strong and immortal... it was that illusion that sent me into the backwoods for three months and have one hell-of-an adventure... i jumped ravines that i would go around today... crossed rivers that were by all appearances uncrossable... reasoned with animals that were twice my size... and twice as deadly... this improved my self image and self esteem...
if i had lived in fear or logic... i would have never taken that adventure... but i probably would have found another way... just as others do...
for me... being in the illusion was just the right place to be at the right time...
and i was still doing all the things that 'awakening' does... living in the present... in the moment... creating and re-creating myself at my whim... living 'in' nature... going with the flow or against it as the circumstance demanded...
i thought i knew what i was doing... and i still think i know what i'm doing...
nothing has really changed... well change is a constant... but you know what i mean... the only difference now... is i know 'why'...
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Yeh, but my point was if you believe that there is a 'why', then you are in effect suggesting what Din is saying, that others are 'lost' in not knowing 'why' and IMO, most people die that way, not knowing why or being lost in what Din sees as illusion.
All I'm saying to those who think this way, is this: What about them?
How do you figure them into the why's and answers you have found?
What about you.........why did you get to know why?
Obviously, I don't buy the whole purpose belief or lost belief or better said, I am not at all convinced.
The way I see it.....we....the spiritual ones....need a reason why and need to feel not lost, so we create for ourselves what we are looking for.
This need comes from life itself and the circumstances dealt to us and our inability to deal with life. IMO
The others......the none spiritual ones, the lost, the ones with don't need to know why..........are happy and kind and at peace and know a lot less then we know.
Of course some don't fit that description but that is irrelevant to my point.
They also outnumber us as far as I can see.
What about them?
just sharing of course.....James