--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "matrixmonitor" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---Well spoken!...(below,) we all have multiple "selves"; a concept > > more consistent with the Buddhist notion of "components" rather than > > the Hindu concept of a "jiva" or reincarnating Soul. > > To follow up on this some more, I find this idea of > "components" liberating. If part of the enlightenment > game is to get over the identification with self and > its attempts to be important, it just feels easier for > me to think of identifying less each day with different > "components" than it does to think of identifying less > with something concrete and fixed like a "self." >
self= transitory things (e.g. personality + beliefs + desires); Self = non-transitory witnessing. I've never seen the distinction between the two approaches. Sorry if you did. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
