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Old 05-12-2008, 08:28 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Mystic Rythm View Post
The objects of sense in the ever changing world are what we adhere to as things of reality. But in the ocean of birth and death, they drown us. How long shall we wander on these paths of dreams? This world to us indeed seems permanent and fixed; yet after all what is it, but road of mirages to which life after life we must return. He, who is forgetful of the self, is the one who wanders all over the sphere in hazy consciousness always returning to the starting point. The awakening for such a dream walker will only be like an illumination of eternity to him.
If you aren't a hungry ghost, what would your suggestion be then? You don't say what happens to the solipsistic, what of the ones that do not forget themselves? Is there the alternative or was this merely a buddhist trolling?
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