I find it helpful to view the world as an extension to my mind and body. But how should I regard people in it?

Question

Do you think this is ok, and not disrespectful?

I am going out for a drink, right!

Answer 1

Regard people with kindess and compassion, and you will be alright.

Answer 2

You have a mind and a body. Others also have a mind and a body. The world that you are experiencing has people within it, who are just as human as you are.
Although the ego part of you wants to believe that it is 'All Me', the wider truth is that reality, which is a shared consensus, is 'All Us'. Therefore, treat people as the individual human beings that they are. They are experiencing reality with you. You are in their reality and they are in yours.
I guess one way of regarding the people in your world view would be as a 'mirror' of some sort, an 'outer' representation of the 'inner' you. The above still applies.

Answer 3

Does this make you responsible for everything that happens ? If so ,I'd like a word.....


Not wishing to dismiss playing with different viewpoints, but isn't the most important part how you view your mind and body.
Some clarification of that point may start to answer this question.
I remember meeting someone ,who was playing with a similar idea, and basically despite being a clever guy, he was feeding his egocentricity, and mistaking his limited mind for something ultimate.

Answer 4

Simple : Regard them as extensions of the World !

Answer 5

If the international is an extension of you, the different can be real: you're an extension of source... and so is each and every little thing in the international... alongside with people. View others as mirrors of your self... seem to them to benefit greater approximately your self. undergo in innovations you will in elementary terms draw that to you from which you have something to benefit. do not turn faraway from the replicate. comprehend the international in each and each individual you spot.

Answer 6

An analogy to use might be that of;

Germs and White Blood Cells ...

Some good and some bad, let the wholeness of the world deal with
the fragmented bad till at some time a free and healthy existence is created ...

Answer 7

With this perspective of the world, you could always view the people around you as the bacteria and micro-organisms that help to run and maintain your body. After all the human body is a microcosom of organisms all working in harmony with each other to maintain life. We have thousands of bacteria on our skin to keep it healthy, and also in our gut to help us digest our foods. We are not alone.

Answer 8

Why is it helpful to view the world like this?
In terms of living in the (social) world we inhabit it may be just as helpful to consider it (the world), people in general and yourself as entirely social constructs.
Self conscious ones yes, but socially constructed to be what they are, which of course is also true of the philosophies they endorse.

All just cultural artifacts at the end of day.

So in answer to your question, you should regard people as self conscious generaters and receivers of culture, this way you will not only be able to identify with them (or not), you will also be able to communicate with some of them..... just like you did here.

Nice question :)

Answer 9

Regard people in the world as if you are looking into a mirror x

Answer 10

Nice thought!

As everyone and everything in the universe is interrelated, and one and the same organism, there is a level where me/you/us/them ceases to matter. At this point you will trancend your ego, and realize that humanity is just a part of a greater conciousness.

Dont ask for directions, though. You need to find it yourself.

Answer 11

extensions of yourself too. not disrespectful, understand that they will not always do as you wish as you cannot control heartrate, or cancer in yourself or other problems inside you. It might be better if people viewed others as a part of them. maybe less inclined to hurt them and cheat them etc.