--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > --- jyouells2000 <jyouells@> wrote: > > > > > My experience is that the 'bound' self is built upon > > > the unwillingness > > > to be nothing, the fear of > > > that... Sort of a continuous looking away. > > > > Brilliant(IMHO)!! The continuous looking away is also > > a continuous looking for a subjective "feeling" of > > self that affirms (falsely) that "I exist." The mind > > does this every few seconds in waking state. It's a > > very subtle egoic habit. You can see this habit in CC > > because the mind turns to find something to affirm > > itself and nothing, literally, is found instead. There > > is no longer a felt-sense of "I" to affirm > > individuality. There is, again, literally, nothing > > there to find but pure consciousness and pure > > consciousness is something that the mind can not > > comprehend. > > I know this was a couple of days ago, but today > I found myself wondering whether the same "looking > away" could help to explain those with an Internet > addiction. They intuit that they're close to the > experience of nothingness, and that scares them, > so they post a lot and/or post stuff calculated > to get a response (positive or negative doesn't > matter, just as long as it's a response), all so > that the self can preserve the illusion of itself. > As long as the self is busy dealing with one-on- > one interactions, the "looking away" succeeds, the > illusion of self's existence is preserved, and > the person never has to deal with the nothingness > they can feel just over the horizon. >
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