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Originally Posted by Zamadhi
By "God" I mean that it is Universal. It is not "your" center of consciousness, but the center of consciousness of the whole of existence. I mean that we are not really separate and divided in the way we usually think and feel.
I'm pretty sure we're separate. I can take a scalpel to your noodle and you'll go on breathing, but you won't be able to think anything I can think, while I go on thinking just fine.
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There is no "before" or "after" in Eternity. Eternity is Eternal Here-Now -- it is timeless (most people think of "eternity" as just a really, really long time).
Sounds like one of those illusions you were talking about.
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There is no "birth", there is no "death" -- there is just Eternal Being.
Sounds like a religious mantra. "There is no you, there is no me, there is are just Thetans who make people do everything".
How is your claiim any less nutty?
Also, I'm pretty sure you came out of a vagina (a process know as "birth"), unless you claim to have just appeared. Why dishonor your mother?
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There is no "my self", there is no "my body" -- there is only consciousness.
So I take it you've donated your heart and liver and eyes to someone needy? Why do you need your body if there is only consciousness?
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Yes, the greatest fear of the ego is death/extinction, and it will believe all sorts of things to avoid having to face its inevitable demise.
But consciously passing through Ego-Death in meditation is the very key to Life Divine (hence the message of all the enlightened ones: "lose yourself to find yourself").
So what all those other people believe about eternal life is ego emanations, but what you believe about eternity is special and not an ego-emanation? You've discovered the "truth" and the path and they're stuck in ego-emanations.
Grandiose much? Deluded much?