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DarkJedi · 01-22-2004, 10:05 AM

Imagine a person who suddenly wakes up in the hospital after an automobile accident to find that she is suffering from total amnesia. Outwardly, everything is intact: She has the same face and form, her senses and her mind are there, but she doesn?t have any idea or any trace of a memory of who she really is.

In exactly the same way, we cannot remember our true identity, our original nature. Frantically, and in real dread, we cast around and improvise another identity, one we clutch with all the desperation of someone falling continuously into an abyss. This false and ignorantly assumed identity is ?ego.?

-Sogyal Rinproch

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Libertine · 01-22-2004, 10:06 AM

Why would we have a "true identity"?

gornyhuy · 01-22-2004, 10:07 AM

Nice!

Seriously... I would love it if you posted a daily buddhist thread...

goBigtime · 01-22-2004, 10:10 AM

What do you expect?

We're falling continuously into an abyss!

Undutchable · 01-22-2004, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by punkworld
Why would we have a "true identity"?

Wondering the same

jungar · 01-22-2004, 10:14 AM

Freud would argue that having an Ego is not a vice, but rather that it is an inherant part of being human!

It would be awsome if someone would post something like this everyday!

jungar · 01-22-2004, 10:27 AM

Drawing back from my philosophy 101 course, I believe it was Nietzsche who said that all living beings have a natural tendancy to gravitate toward the unattainable state of perfection.

What stops us from making progress toward this state is when we restrain our natural animal instincts. In order for us to restrain ourselves, we have to develop ideas, or concepts, about the real-world.

Eventually, we develop so many concepts that it skews our perception of reality. We act according to how we percieve our world. This will end up influencing how we think of ourselves which effects our identity!

And so, we walk around with a skewed, or phoney identity! To rid ourselves of this phoney identity, we have to turn back to our animal instincts!

Deep thoughts, by Joshua Ungar

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Joshua Ungar
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wimpy · 01-22-2004, 08:29 PM

I used to meditate twice a day, every day. At one point after meditating for years, I had a very odd out of body experience during a meditation. A Buddhist friend of mine told me it was one of the 3 (or was it 5?) stages of death. It was very cool, I'd do it again in a heartbeat, but I can not will it to happen.

01-22-2004, 10:05 AM	#1
DarkJedi No Refunds Issued. Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: GFY Posts: 28,300	Daily Buddhist Wisdom Imagine a person who suddenly wakes up in the hospital after an automobile accident to find that she is suffering from total amnesia. Outwardly, everything is intact: She has the same face and form, her senses and her mind are there, but she doesn?t have any idea or any trace of a memory of who she really is. In exactly the same way, we cannot remember our true identity, our original nature. Frantically, and in real dread, we cast around and improvise another identity, one we clutch with all the desperation of someone falling continuously into an abyss. This false and ignorantly assumed identity is ?ego.? -Sogyal Rinproch www.rigpa.org You can sign up for "Glimpse of the day"

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wimpy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Cali Posts: 607	I used to meditate twice a day, every day. At one point after meditating for years, I had a very odd out of body experience during a meditation. A Buddhist friend of mine told me it was one of the 3 (or was it 5?) stages of death. It was very cool, I'd do it again in a heartbeat, but I can not will it to happen. __________________ Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote: "Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind." icq 8243657

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goBigtime Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 7,761	What do you expect? We're falling continuously into an abyss!

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jungar Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 377	Freud would argue that having an Ego is not a vice, but rather that it is an inherant part of being human! It would be awsome if someone would post something like this everyday!

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jungar Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 377	Drawing back from my philosophy 101 course, I believe it was Nietzsche who said that all living beings have a natural tendancy to gravitate toward the unattainable state of perfection. What stops us from making progress toward this state is when we restrain our natural animal instincts. In order for us to restrain ourselves, we have to develop ideas, or concepts, about the real-world. Eventually, we develop so many concepts that it skews our perception of reality. We act according to how we percieve our world. This will end up influencing how we think of ourselves which effects our identity! And so, we walk around with a skewed, or phoney identity! To rid ourselves of this phoney identity, we have to turn back to our animal instincts! Deep thoughts, by Joshua Ungar Regards, Joshua Ungar myVirtualCard www.myVirtualCard.com