On Jun 30, 5:44 am, [email protected] wrote: > ....When my child is sick I feel fear. When I am away on > work for days I feel the strong desire to hold him and hug > him. I cannot get rid of fear and desire. It's an impossible > task for me.
So many people repeat that question, "so WHO is it that feels fear" or whatever. It seems this question has lost all its juice, for me anyway. But then there is the sugar cube example -- awesome!! All 6 BILLION human bodies -- if you remove all the empty space from those bodies -- would fit into a sugar cube. So what that means is YOUR body is One-Six-Billionth of a sugar cube!!! That's how much "stuff" there is in "you". So here's another way to look at it: Look at your body. Can you feel the outline of it? "You" are inside of there, somewhere, right? YOU, the guy who feels stuff, pain for children or parents, or whatever it is. Now SNAP! All the empty space is removed, and "you" are a speck that is 1-6Billionth of a sugar cube in size. So where are "you" in THAT?? Same thing, right? Just all the empty space removed. Still "you", right?? Where is the "you" in that speck? Or this: Take a speck of stuff, that is One-Six-Billionth of a sugar cube in size, and BOING! Add some empty space to it and you get something called a "human". Really? Is that all a human is? A tiny amount of stuff, with some nothingness added in?? The "space" that is in an atom, between the Electrons and the Nucleus -- that is EXACTLY the same vacuum-of-space that is between the Earth and the Moon, or the furthest reaches of the universe. Vacuum. Nothingness. Emptiness. That is what you are. The Vacuum of space, with an incredibly tiny bit of stuff scattered about, for an incredibly teeny period of time (which humans may label a "lifespan" or something). Where is "you" within that tiny bit of stuff, within the vacuum of space, within emptiness?
