08-12-2010, 12:07 AM
In this relative existence, we must do...so do what the heart urges, and then know it doesn't really amount to anything, only relatively speaking it does.
Any declaration...is false in the sense that change is the eternal constant, so nothing declared remains in an unchanged state (the state it was declared as). But that doesn't mean we can avoid day to day matters or things of practical value of which belong such declarations.
It just means we should know...nothing is ever completed and also it is complete in this very way. So we have to strive to achieve (the positive change we want) even though nothing truly reaches conclusion.
Ever notice how death aka "end" (of anything) is also simultaneously a beginning? Such as, retiring from work is the beginning of a new daily experience (retirement) or death of a person in your life is the beginning of your life without that person in it. So what seems to conclude never really concludes...it just begins a new experience, and one can say it never had a original beginning that can be located...such as, we don't remember our birth. We never have experienced birth (our own). And I say we never will experience death either...not truly. Only we can observe it happening around us...but we don't know what that experience is for the ones we observe it happening to. So there is an assumption of death as a termination, because that how it appears when we see it. But never have we actually experienced a true termination, nor a true beginning, ourselves (in our own consciousness).
"Things are not as they seem; nor are they otherwise."
"is all the we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?"
Any declaration...is false in the sense that change is the eternal constant, so nothing declared remains in an unchanged state (the state it was declared as). But that doesn't mean we can avoid day to day matters or things of practical value of which belong such declarations.
It just means we should know...nothing is ever completed and also it is complete in this very way. So we have to strive to achieve (the positive change we want) even though nothing truly reaches conclusion.
Ever notice how death aka "end" (of anything) is also simultaneously a beginning? Such as, retiring from work is the beginning of a new daily experience (retirement) or death of a person in your life is the beginning of your life without that person in it. So what seems to conclude never really concludes...it just begins a new experience, and one can say it never had a original beginning that can be located...such as, we don't remember our birth. We never have experienced birth (our own). And I say we never will experience death either...not truly. Only we can observe it happening around us...but we don't know what that experience is for the ones we observe it happening to. So there is an assumption of death as a termination, because that how it appears when we see it. But never have we actually experienced a true termination, nor a true beginning, ourselves (in our own consciousness).
"Things are not as they seem; nor are they otherwise."
"is all the we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?"