> > Whenever I hear something like this, I find myself > > wondering whether everyone who says it has completely > > forgotten the Bardo experience, between death and > > rebirth. Consciousness doesn't stop. It's there while > > the body is lying dead in its coffin and the brain is > > no longer functioning, and its there long after the > > body has been reduced to ashes in the crematorium. > > So what part of that consciousness do you believe > > is based on your physical brain? > > What confuses me is how time fits into all of this. This > whole concept of sequential lives is bound to space-time, > yet consciousness is not. From the perspective of > consciousness, isn't the life-Bardo-life-Bardo-life-Bardo- > life-Bardo-etc timeline purely an illusion?
Not necessarily. It's the same conundrum that gives people fits when they read that Buddhists believe in reincarnation, but at the same time believe that their is no such thing as an individual soul that could be reincarnated. The answer, of course, is "Knowledge is structured in consciousness." *From the point of view* of timeless Unity, there is no time, and thus no sequential series of incarnations. However, from the point of view of the individual who is exper- iencing these individual incarnations, there is. One could say that time and reincarnation are "illusions" and only the "ultimate" reality of timeless Unity exists, but I don't think that's it. The thing is, *both* exist, seamlessly, and without the least bit of conflict. It all depends upon where "you" stand when looking at them, and who "you" is at the moment you choose to look. :-) 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
