----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Reet and the Weakest Link
> {Ron]
>> the truth is only known to you.
>> It's about developing that within yourself
>> not a concrete definition that is
>> universally agreed upon.
>
> But as you know, Buddhists and others here and elsewhere claim
> the "self" is just an illusion. I guess this means anything you-the-
> illusion believe to be true is also just an illusion. Makes one wonder
how
> we manage to get through the day -- but since "we" and "days" are
> illusions, too, we can only conclude that reality is but a dream. But,
> somehow I think it would be hard to convince a survivor of a suicide
> bomber
> that her experience was just a figment of her imagination.
>
Hi Platt,
Not an illusion. Self is empty of inherent existence.
That the self is an independent entity is an illusion.
Marsha
Hi Marsha,
You mean there's another Marsha somewhere? One can only hope. :-)
Platt
Hi Platt,
Marsha is an ever-changing, collection of overlapping, interrelated,
inorganic, biological, social and intellectual, static patterns of value.
Interconnected to all other patterns. Nothing independent about her. :-)
me
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