(March 19, 2015 at 7:30 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:(March 19, 2015 at 1:54 pm)daver49 Wrote: Just Being
Is that interacting?
act in such a way as to have an effect on another; act reciprocally.?
It is the end of interacting because there is no "other" to interact with. Being is the realization that you don't "have a life" ( i.e a life that "belongs" to you and others have lives that belong to them). Life isn't an object, life is the subject you are. It also is the realization that who you "think" you are is not who you really are. Who you "think" you are is a collection of thoughts and their associated feelings (body reactions identified as physical sensations). The next time you have a feeling like anger or happiness, it will probably be associated with thoughts like "I am angry because.." or "I am happy because..." Who is observing these thoughts and these feelings? Which "me" is real: the thoughts and feelings I think I am or that who is aware of the thoughts and feelings being present? So, in a weird-crazy way, to interact with you is to really be interacting with myself because we are one life manifesting itself as separate and temporary forms of that one life energy. Just observe your thoughts and feelings for a while and I think you will realize you are more than your thoughts and that Descartes only had part of the picture when he said "Ego cogito, ergo sum." This isn't to say thoughts are not important or have no value, just that they are not who you are or who other people are. One wonderful by-product is that we have the end of judgement (final judgement?) because judgement is a product of thoughts, concepts and feelings. All is well.
