tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post2790497881015089109..comments2023-03-31T00:42:14.692-07:00Comments on Conversations With Chris Bernard: I AM What I Am and That's All That I AmMolly Broganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02864214690848523445noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-52249794645745964492008-11-09T10:51:00.000-08:002008-11-09T10:51:00.000-08:00Wow, what a bunch of thoughts. Each has some value...Wow, what a bunch of thoughts. Each has some value and thus your post awake me(urged to respond in spite of the fact that it would be quite hard to do while writing with the dictionary in hand)Thank you. <BR/>In some sense, yes, we all are different, but our different fingertips interest just the police. <BR/>What is worthy indeed is the recognition of ourselves in others. That not puts us all inTOMAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16226497003658176393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-55970809299251016282008-09-30T05:01:00.000-07:002008-09-30T05:01:00.000-07:00this is really a nice blogthis is really a nice blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-6865382399964362932008-09-10T14:35:00.000-07:002008-09-10T14:35:00.000-07:00In numerology there is a so called personality whi...In numerology there is a so called personality which is a kind of mask, in both direction. It is a selective, I would say manipulative personal choice for presentation(personal publicity) that serves a person to be accpeted and it is also a kind of a measure how others percieve us.<BR/>This aspect actually "serves" a person to get a security in exploration of the true being(individuality, or Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-9851422090185368562008-08-25T08:40:00.001-07:002008-08-25T08:40:00.001-07:00..tja, and that is why life and death are ideas........tja, and that is why life and death are ideas...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-16193478592903258542008-08-25T08:40:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:40:00.000-07:00Time space mass are all relative.ieThis is bigger/...Time space mass are all relative.<BR/>ie<BR/>This is bigger/ smaller compared to?<BR/>Decaytime/growthtime of this is longer/shorter compared to?<BR/>The universe as i,you experience it and provided that you can take aboard how<BR/>science has mapped it out so far, it is the universe as i know it<BR/>and understand it that it is essential fractallic.<BR/>This means that the only correct concept Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-11561752490904454092008-08-25T08:39:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:39:00.000-07:00Entity of pure energy, that sounds niceEntity of pure energy, that sounds niceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-78952450076294403042008-08-25T08:31:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:31:00.000-07:00you just step out of your body when it is no longe...you just step out of your body when it is no longer useful to you, & make do without it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-64531824184267293962008-08-25T08:30:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:30:00.000-07:00..we know what life consists of, but what it ís ex.....we know what life consists of, but what it ís exactly? Death is still a mystery too. Do you have any idea?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-79817497968913111952008-08-25T08:29:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:29:00.000-07:00How can it be?There is no "we" to either be at odd...How can it be?<BR/><BR/>There is no "we" to either be at odds or at evens.<BR/><BR/><BR/>There is just "that" sporting as a "questioning jufa" as well as an "answering zorba".......<BR/><BR/>Simultaneously.<BR/><BR/>We live in a catch 22 situation. It is a situation which began for us the exact moment of our conception. It is a situation which placed us in a bubble within a bubble, within a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-29649259123158969442008-08-25T08:24:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:24:00.000-07:00Hey again.No I am alright! :)It just seemed as if ...Hey again.<BR/><BR/>No I am alright! :)<BR/><BR/>It just seemed as if you were bothered by something I said. Maybe the tone I perceived wasn't accurate. The internet blows for that...<BR/><BR/>Ok fine, I put a bit of sarcasm in it. :)<BR/><BR/>Ok, no more quoting.....<BR/><BR/>Thought doesn't have concreteness in reality at all! It can be accurate shadows and labels, but nothing more.... Animal Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-41659733023508128012008-08-25T08:22:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:22:00.000-07:00you come from direct experience or realization? bu...you come from direct experience or realization? but you know no doctrines? who is your teacher? Even Gopi Krishna who stumbled onto kundalini awakening by creating his own ansanas had a teacher and direction. You quote zen but zen is one of the traditions that actually emphasizes the importance of having a teacher the most.<BR/><BR/>"Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-67528645282253010232008-08-25T08:21:00.001-07:002008-08-25T08:21:00.001-07:00Yes. It's all just egoic breakdown and a deeper wh...Yes. It's all just egoic breakdown and a deeper wholeness with life. Then one manifests in a state of deeper realization and connectedness to life, and it isn't all "I, me, my." Theres no separate life. We all have different abilities and qualities that manifest in us and go toward the whole of life. With purpose there is no work or retirement. It's not work if one feels purpose in it, and you Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-28617805710568070192008-08-25T08:21:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:21:00.000-07:00The reason for my original post was to discuss and...The reason for my original post was to discuss and clarify individuality and Oneness. We look to myriad doctrines for relatedness so that we can better understand our direct experience. We can read the Buddhist teachings and say, yea! This is what I feel. This is what I know. I have been there. Then we can read Einstein's "The World As I See It," which, depending on the edition you are reading, Molly Broganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02864214690848523445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-30572041305809986892008-08-25T08:20:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:20:00.000-07:00(looks back at what I even wrote :p)Yea sorry, I d...(looks back at what I even wrote :p)<BR/><BR/>Yea sorry, I don't really memorize doctrines or whatever. I mostly come from direct experience or realization. Then intellect just draws from that and does the best it can with the information that the mind has taken in and shuffled about. I did not mean to demean any sort of bundle of thought!<BR/><BR/>Yes, I understand. I just mentioned that becauseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-71857587506297098162008-08-25T08:18:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:18:00.000-07:00No one has said that dependant arising or anatman ...No one has said that dependant arising or anatman imply you cannot be creative. it simply implies that those are not individual efforts.<BR/><BR/>If you were a person who actually knew what he was talking about in regards to the teachings above, you would not have merely quoted Einstein, since einstein is obviously not a spiritual teacher or authority on spirituality of anykind. Einstein is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-58687517669959260012008-08-16T19:09:00.000-07:002008-08-16T19:09:00.000-07:00Yes, being an individual makes us different one fr...Yes, being an individual makes us different one from another. Which is not to say that we don't look/act like one another, especially when we are influenced by others.<BR/><BR/>We're all just atoms, bumping around. When we see something we like and/or are familiar with we take from others (traits, characteristics, etc).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-72653756686104616132008-08-14T06:33:00.000-07:002008-08-14T06:33:00.000-07:00"No-self" or "oneness with life," or "spiritual ex..."No-self" or "oneness with life," or "spiritual experience isn't about no personality or creativity, or expression, etc.<BR/><BR/>It is just a deeper connection or placement or actualization in life.<BR/>Expanded reality, etc.<BR/><BR/>Personality, creativity, etc, can all still manifest quite alright.<BR/><BR/>But yea different abilities, qualities, etc can all manifest in different parts of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-22327783355344019582008-08-13T06:59:00.000-07:002008-08-13T06:59:00.000-07:00Wow, great post. I am changes continually as the ...Wow, great post. I am changes continually as the I remembers the AM. :-)<BR/>When we call nature mother earth, we refer to her in all her variety and splendor, millions of seperate idenities, noticable and discernable on their own. Could humans be that expression of a Central Source?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-16431876448199177232008-08-12T11:01:00.000-07:002008-08-12T11:01:00.000-07:00I think it is rather how we are as individuals not...I think it is rather how we are as individuals not who we are. If that makes any sense.<BR/>The how being, how we treat each other, how we use the gifts that we are given to share. The who, as in trying to be important, greedy, selfish.<BR/>Personally, I like digging in the dirt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-38734901014062115632008-08-12T08:59:00.000-07:002008-08-12T08:59:00.000-07:00This recalls an old Zen story, about a lion who wa...This recalls an old Zen story, about a lion who was brought up by sheep and who thought he was a sheep until an old lion captured him and took him to a pond, where he showed him his own reflection. Many of us are like this lion - the image we have of ourselves comes not from our own direct experience but from the opinions of others. A "personality" imposed from the outside replaces the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-29980032142186380892008-08-09T09:04:00.000-07:002008-08-09T09:04:00.000-07:00In my opinion St. Thomas gave the best and shortes...In my opinion St. Thomas gave the best and shortest description of the individuality. Osho's explanation is great, too.<BR/><BR/>It means, when we enjoy our commonalities with others it has nothing to do with the lose of our individuality. It is not inevitably connected.<BR/><BR/>If that is the case, if we lose our individuality by enjoying our commonalities with others it means society has done Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-48817352656458566502008-08-09T08:39:00.000-07:002008-08-09T08:39:00.000-07:00Si! es muy verdad!There is something we attain fro...Si! es muy verdad!<BR/>There is something we attain from looking into someone's eyes as it is said the eyes are the window to the soul. When I look in the mirror I see my individuality in it's raw sense as I'm looking through the same eyes that I have looked through all my life. This represents to me the individual me, the unchanged individual. As you, I have traversed many planes in life whileAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-33211260390361197692008-08-09T08:37:00.000-07:002008-08-09T08:37:00.000-07:00There is something to what you say. I feel the he...There is something to what you say. I feel the heartbeat of the same essential being - the being expressed as the writer today, while having been student, drifter, teacher, wife, mother, activist, prevention specialist, social designer, and corporate executive, at different times of my life. Still, through each, and each seemed to have their own unique identity, I am the same essential Molly Broganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02864214690848523445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-74255292533271049662008-08-06T05:43:00.000-07:002008-08-06T05:43:00.000-07:00Molly you present 3 questions in the primary post,...Molly you present 3 questions in the primary post, those being: (1) What makes us individuals? (2) Is being an individual the same as being different? (3) When we enjoy our commonalities with others, do we lose our individuality? <BR/><BR/>(1) My first thought was; Our uniqueness in mind and the way we think makes us individuals. Einstein was more concise with recognition of consciousness and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2916532122185648082.post-86730457316057096052008-08-06T05:38:00.000-07:002008-08-06T05:38:00.000-07:00I imagine that, with abstracts, quality is more im...I imagine that, with abstracts, quality is more important than quantity. But, at the same time, each worldline path is going to be different anyway. It would be interesting if, in the future, science figures out how to read minds by noting the path of their consciousness through an abstract data field. There's a sci-fi novel for you. Future cops accessing the Calabi- Yau traces of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com