--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Louis McKenzie <ltm457@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have believed in reincarnation, but I must say I did > > > > not understand what the word meant. I have always thought > > > > of reincarnating as death and rebirth. But lets look at when you > > > > said. Consciouness does not die. Consciousness therefore is not > > > > reborn. I am not my body I am the indweller. I will maintian > > > > this body for a time and then change it like old clothes, like > > > > moving from one house to the other. <snip excellent story> > > > > > > Just FYI, one view of the rebirth process described > > > in the Tibetan Book of the Dead is that it is not > > > just describing what happens when you actually die. > > > The same process applies to the continual death and > > > rebirth of the self during a single incarnation. > > > > That is an interesting concept. What do you mean by > > continual death and rebirth during a single incarnation? > > Ok, this is probably going to take some "setting up." > > The basic concept is that we, as humans and as seekers, > do not have a fixed self. We have millions of them. As > Walt Whitman said, "I contain multitudes." > > Given this assumption, what many people see as the 'self' > growing and learning from experience and changing over > the years some Buddhists view more as one self dying > and another becoming active. 'Self' itself is viewed > as the decision to access and dwell in a particular > state of attention. Move to another state of attention > and that self dies and is replaced with another equally > illusory self more appropriate to the new state of > attention. > > What I'm suggesting is that another way to view the > process of "growing up," one that doesn't depend on > the notion of a fixed self, is to view self discovery > as a continual series of deaths and rebirths. One self > is left behind and the next becomes predominant, until > it's time for that one to be left behind, too. > > *If* one looks at life that way, and thinks in those > terms, the Tibetan Book of the Dead takes on whole new > levels of meaning. The descriptions of the Bardo transits > can be seen in terms of things that happen to us day by > day in this lifetime, and not solely in terms of what > happens to us during the actual transit from physical > death to new physical life. >
Makes sense. Certainly, the concept of deep-sleep-as-mini-death goes along with this. Of course, you take it to its ultimate extreme: each span of attention is a micro-life complete with micro-self. That is very MMY-esque of you actually. 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/
