--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the difference between so called life and so > called death?
Point of view. :-) > We don't go away- our essential nature, our consciousness > remains, so what difference is it if the consciousness > is in the living room or the dining room or the bedroom? > Is it fair or accurate to say we have *died* when we move > from room to room? Yes, if the point of view from which "we" are being perceived is outside of ourselves. That is, if some point of view outside ourselves sees us transiting from room to room, then we are...*from* that POV. >From our own, there is no break of consciousness, absolutely no change from the moment of body breathing and body not breathing, of leaving one room and moving into another. > If I go from the living room to the dining room and > someone says 'where's Jim?', do we say, 'oh he went > into the dining room; he's dead'...? If one still believes in rooms one does. :-) > It is like that old phrase about enlightenment, you > know, the one about chopping wood and carrying water, > both before and after. Same deal, dead or alive -- > no difference--. Exactly. No difference whatsoever. If one can maintain an unbroken stream of consciousness from lifetime to lifetime, there *IS* an unbroken stream of consciousness from lifetime to lifetime. > Death is just the word to mean the physical body dies. > Has little to do with the real Us on our eternal > journey. No worries, mate. Absofuckinglutely. 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/
