Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 There are two camps in spirituality, those who seek permanence, and wish for immortality, and those who accept impermanence and insubstantiality. Most humans whether spiritual or not, stand on the first camp. The very precariousness of life creates a craving for permanence and activity. We are tied to activity through breathing, we can't stop, even for 6 minutes, without dying. The lungs must go on sucking air, the heart pumping blood, to stop is to die. We must constantly act to live, to cease is to perish. We fear rest. This need for bodily activity has tainted the mind. The mind also feels this fear of rest, this craving to solidify existence through activities and language. We use the word not only to communicate, but to reify existence itself. This is a very comforting trick, and so, even those who claim to seek truth, seek only safety through words. They fabricate a verbal eternal self, a soul, and an afterlife of punishments and delights. The other camp tries to see beyond words, to give up verbal entities, and to rest on the ineffability of existence itself. Not a popular cause, I must say! Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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