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AVIDYA--not knowing?

Makes me think of video games.

All of us getting to hold the A-controller for 72.5+/- years (much, much less if we calculated the death rate of infants world over) to have quasi-complete control over a chunk of carbon that countless, countless, countless others have already lived through. Our mind poured through our matter, like invisible air being drawn through a Dyson fan of expendable material that changes to accommodate whatever count and color of mind we bring to the enzo that is our lives.

The matter appears to "change" into magical creations (dinsosaurs and yetis and ladybugs), but we all know the Legos break back down into simple tiny pieces. Some wiseacre scientist said each person on the earth was statistically in ownership of some so many million moles of particles with William Shakespeare.

The old man says, "The very large has no outside, the very small no inside".

Huh?

The "problem" isn't the universal matter, but the universal mind. Every time a chunk of matter splits off it's easily recognizable as more stuff with all the same capabilities as all other "stuff". When mind splits off from mind you get different capabilities. . . or do you?

If we're basically from the same mind, then we all have the same abilities. ALL OF US.

So who are the victors? Who are the losers?

How can mind or matter one up itself?

Setting that aside, how do I live to fight another day FOREVER?!!!! What does "losing" in life mean if we can live forever with autonomy? Is that possible? Why couldn't it if the dharma is a dharma of no-dharma?

My first thought is to keep control of this chunk of carbon as long as I damn well can! But then if immortality really was a thing, would there not already be immortal beings (kind of the same argument as those for/against time travelers)? If so, then how do I explain myself? If this material I "posses" at this moment really is indestructible and immortals really do exist then what I have to admit is that some immortals must choose to relinquish control of their carbon and that's how I got ahold of it!

The old man said, "I appreciate the selflessness of things".

The "things" he's talking about AIN'T the chair you're sitting in OR the oak tree in the garden (it is too) but. . .THE THING IS THE OURSELVES. He's appreciating being alive for the sake of being alive!!!!

Huangbo said, "Perfection is a deep sea of wisdom, Samsara a whirling storm of chaos".

Lieutenant Dan said, "YOU CALL THIS A STORM?!!!"

Submitted February 27, 2018 at 07:54PM by john--jones http://ift.tt/2EWJIoZ