(September 2, 2018 at 5:29 am)Shantideva Wrote: All patterns change gradually over time. My physical structure has gradually changed over time, so have my thought patterns. The version of me at certain points in time no longer exists as it did before, but the energy that made up "me" at any given point in time is and always will be in existence...so says the 1rst law. I've come to accept that what I am will always be changing.
Energy is even less persistent. It's like saying that all the electricity that you have used up running your computer throughout its lifetime is also part of the computer.
Or another analogy, you can't step into the side river twice. All the water molecules that have ever flowed through the same river are no longer part of it once they leave the river.
