0207 - IS HALFWAY THRO YEAR DAY
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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. -Billie Holida
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We lack inherent existence. Basically, wherever we look we can't seem to find something called 'self'. We find something that changes and is reliant upon conditions external of it. In Buddhism, the mind is a causal sequence of momentary mental acts. This sequence is called the mindstream.'Self' is something that is imputed or conventionally made. In Mahayana Buddhism, this applied not only to the self but to all things. That is called emptiness.It is for this reason in Buddhism, that which is reborn is not an unchanging self but a collection of psychic or mental materials. We call this a mindstream. These materials bring with them dispositions to act in the world. There is only a relationship of continuity and not one of identity though. Karmic impressions are carried over from one life to the next but the mental collection itself is not the same. This is true for us even from moment to moment as well. We simply impute a common name across some continuities and not those after the body dies.
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"Today bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me." AB SAMSARA - 3 POISONS GHI  A NIRVANA  A  A |
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