Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 "For example, my mother has been a cancer care nurse for 25 years, and has described many cases where a patient, told by a doctor "there's nothing more we can do for you," will quietly lay down and "pass on" a few hours or even minutes afterwards." The converse it true: Those who did not believe what the doctor said, have lived many years after the doctor said they would. , "Omkara" <coresite@h...> wrote: > > , Daniel Berkow <berkowd@u...> wrote: > > Hi Tim! > > > > Okay, speak on ... > > > >How about "the desire to be the ultimate Subject?" :-) > > > > > >There's plenty i could say on that, but > > >curious as to 'your input' :-). > > > Dear Dan, > > Ok, here's how i see it... > > The desire to be (not to be anything in particular, just to BE) lies > at the root of life. The desire to be something in particular, as > you mentioned, is the desire to attain something not already > possessed. > > Yet the desire to *BE* is something "built in" to life itself. In > fact, i maintain that this "root" desire is precisely what maintains > life as "separation" (as a physical body, as a separate entity in > space and time). > > For example, my mother has been a cancer care nurse for 25 years, and > has described many cases where a patient, told by a doctor "there's > nothing more we can do for you," will quietly lay down and "pass on" > a few hours or even minutes afterwards. > > So as i see it, the desire to BE is the 'root' of all other desires. > If for some reason that desire drops acausally, life (as commonly > known) ends. > > It doesn't (necessarily) result in actual death of the body. If that > root desire is "cut" or drops off somehow (without any illness > involved), something like a death occurs -- as described by Ramana > Maharshi, U.G. Krishnamurti and some of the other sages. > > Following that 'death', desire itself is no more -- all desires > are "Fulfilled." > > Anyway, just some ramblings and 'pointings'. They won't be useful to > anyone, because the dropping of "the root desire" is acausal -- there > is no way for an 'entity' or a "me" to drop the desire to be (if > causally related, it seems likely to result only in clinical > depression and related dis-ease). > > Namaste, > > Tim > > , Daniel Berkow <berkowd@u...> wrote: > > Hi Tim! > > > > Okay, speak on ... > > > >How about "the desire to be the ultimate Subject?" :-) > > > > > >There's plenty i could say on that, but > > >curious as to 'your input' :-). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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