The stuff our roots are made of.
Mon, 09/20/2010 - 23:30
I had an interesting, chance conversation the other day (most of my interesting conversations happen by chance, interestingly enough). It centered around the issue of what keeps us rooted to this dream.
We ended up agreeing that.. it is our perceiving of differences amongst ourselves... that keeps us rooted to this dream. And that those roots, which keep us rooted to this dream, naturally dissolve once our perception of those differences dissolve.
From my own personal experience, I can attest that this is so.
Is it so for you too?
- 494 reads
-
what if the core of the delusion (or dream) is not the perception of differences, but the assumption that those differences are owned by selves?
this would mean that part of the delusion involves these selves somehow changing 'their' perceptions.
what if, instead of trying to change perception, the assumption that there is a self to own perception of any kind is investigated?
life seems full of variety. comparing the various manifestations of life does seem to yield an observation of differences.
what can't be found is an implied self, who needs to change perception; who believes it is rooted in a dream; who has a personal experience.
life is all there is. experience, perception, variety.
it seems here that the dream is the delusion that me exists at all.