I was watching a short video clip and it just dawn on me a concept that somehow set my mind into a state of unrest but at the same time it tranquillised me. The thought went more or less like this: I've been worried about material things, human creations of all kinds, I mean human art, cultural products, everything. It's not that I've been worried all the time about this but I always valued those kind of things and deeply regretted their disappearance out of decay, demolition by stupid fanatics, etc. Now, when you think of it all, everything that is, was and will be already existed and will exist in the prototype of creation so nothing is really lost. Everything is rebuilt, we start all over again, or least we have the chance to. So no material thing is that important, actually. It is us who evolve, who are constantly changing and things just accompany us on our journey during our material lives. I don't know if I've made myself clear enough, please tell me if I haven't. Am I right?
2007-09-25 16:00:59 · 12 answers · asked by Der weiße Hexenmeister 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adam's mum, you're right. Its just the a plethora of words, objects, everything rushed into my thoughts and I wrote whatever I could "download" from that. Yes, surely thoughts are recursive too as pretty much everything but I was thinking that these material things, excluding us, and now I add the category of immaterial things such as thoughts, they are all intranscendental just as our mortal bodies but our essences, either if we are one in the end or different, separated beings are things that evolve or grow from experience, so I don't know if we really are transcendental or not. It's hard to express...
2007-09-25 16:24:46 · update #1
I agree with what you are saying and feel the same way. I like the way some Native American tribes viewed life : they taught that none of us actually owns anything, that it is all simply lent to us by The Great Spirit, and when we are gone, those things that remain afterwards will be lent to someone else by The Great Spirit. I too have felt the pain of the disappearance of cultural nuances, morals, and ideals as the world has moved from a simpler way of life to an ever more technological society. But I too have come to the realization that change is not only inevitable, it is necessary for growth of all that is. So now, I hold onto only my reverance for life, my respect for others, and my hope that I will become more wise with time. Everything else - including money, jobs, people, cars, houses, everything - is merely lent to me for a short time, and then I am gone.
2007-09-26 04:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You talk of material things that "already existed and will exist in the prototype of creation so nothing is really lost". Have you thought also, that "us who evolve" are no different? No man has a thought today that has not been thought in the past (basic thought, not of modern technology of course). So many of those thoughts are never acted upon.....that person dies.....another is born and later has that same thought. Who's actually evolving here? It's all continuously lost and rebuilt. That's the journey. Will you be the one to act upon the thought so many others have already had?
2007-09-25 16:13:40 · answer #2 · answered by Adam's Mom 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look into
The Buddhist Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path
The Buddha thought similiarly
2007-09-25 16:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by Sheed 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Chaos versus order.
2007-09-26 02:51:30 · answer #4 · answered by peskylisa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything is imperminent in its form as everything changes. you cant destroy matter or energy but it can change.
when we are attached to something it is becouse it brings us feelings of joy, but this to changes, so we do these things more or get more of them, attachment can bring great pain at the loss of somethingsuch as a death but that hurt is essentialy selfish and becouse of our loss although we do externalise this to what was lost so we don't think that it is just life and celebrate it as it should be.
2007-09-26 00:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by manapaformetta 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you are clear.
Change is constant!
Attachment to things or results can disrupt the creative flow of energy and free thought.
2007-09-25 16:30:46 · answer #6 · answered by Bluebootz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everything is impermanent therefore attachment can only give rise to unhappiness and torment.
2007-09-25 21:04:11 · answer #7 · answered by LillyB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup.
2007-09-25 16:04:20 · answer #8 · answered by Claire 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Come again?
2007-09-25 16:05:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Erase your doubt.
jtm
2007-09-25 16:07:04 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋