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    Ultimately is permanent/impermanent a duality?

    I’m really stuck on why form needs to be impermanent. Can’t there be a form that subsists forever and ever and doesn’t “die”? If you say no then that seems limiting to infinity. Everything should be possible including a permanent form.

    Also why does change require “death”? Couldn’t there just be change with forms constantly morphing and evolving without the full stop called death?

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    Hi- sorry didn’t know where to post this. Is anyone else constantly getting EX144 errors when trying to sign into the forum now? It is highly annoying. I’ve tried three different browsers and finally had to go to a fourth to log in this time. Can someone fix these issues? I tried submitting a technical support request but that wouldn’t go through either

  9. Posted · Edited by Bruins8000

    I’d like to explore this topic further. If “God” is truly infinite/unbounded then that means no limitations. Therefore “dreaming up” an immortal being should be 100% possible, otherwise you are placing limits. Now maybe what we think of as immortality is not accurate- maybe this being would be able to morph into something else/dissolve its form when needed then reappear. So many possibilities.

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    In many corners of nonduality (I.E Rupert Spira) deep sleep and death are often compared. It’s explained that your “true self”/consciousness loses all the extra layers (relationships, desires, personal stories) in deep sleep and also in death. Of course deep sleep is temporary- it isn’t feared because you have the expectation of waking up again in the morning.

    Why are deep sleep and death talked about by many as a way someone returns to their true self? Doesn’t that sound dualistic? There was never a someone to return to a true self- it’s all THIS. 

    Also why is death talked about as no problem because it’s akin to deep sleep? As I said before you expect (most of the time) to return from deep sleep. In death we truly don’t know what occurs but returning to the physical life as you know it isn’t in the cards.

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    1 minute ago, EdgeGod900 said:

    @Bruins8000 If you can do what ever you want? Why not entertain yourself? creation and destruction are both fun. 

    Is that the only possibility though? Creation and destruction? Seems limiting. Or is that maybe just what we experience in our human reality? I have to imagine in some other dimension it could be different. All words in the end- I know 9_9

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    I might have been a little confusing and unclear before in why I was even pondering this. All in all, it doesn’t really matter to me on a personal level no. It matters to me on how THIS/the all is. If THIS only creates “beings” that must be born and must die- isn’t that kind of unoriginal and boring? It clashes with the idea that THIS is limitless and ultimate/full potential. THIS/the Ultimate can’t imagine a form that doesn’t go through the same old story of being born and dying? That’s what is hanging me up right now

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    35 minutes ago, Moksha said:

    What do you mean by THIS? If you are referring to the cosmos and everything within it, it is limited by its nature. For example, consider its age. The Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion year ago, so light has only had that much time to travel. The cosmos is currently 93 billion light-years in diameter. Most scientists believe it will eventually reach the limit of its expansion in 65 million years, and collapse upon itself in the Big Crunch.

    Mystics have realized the same expansion and collapse of the cosmos, millennia before scientists did.

    If by THIS you are referring to ultimate reality, which is beyond the cosmos, it has no dualistic attributes including creation/destruction, transience/intransience, and form/formlessness.

    I mean THIS i.e the infinite all/“god”

  18. Posted · Edited by Bruins8000

    1 hour ago, Moksha said:

    All forms are transient. Whatever is created must eventually die. Call it the Law of Dualities. The stick always has two ends.

    Beyond time is beyond the dualities of birth and death.

    All created things are transitory; those who realize this are freed from suffering. This is the path that leads to pure wisdom.

    - Dhammapada 20:277

    That just seems limiting and that idea has always given me issues. If THIS is infinite and all powerful there should be zero restrictions or impossibilities, up to and including non-transient forms.

  23. Posted · Edited by Bruins8000

    My heart is broken right now. My beloved cat, 18 years old, passed away last evening. We had her for many years. We adopted her when she was a “senior “ after she had been in two not so great living situations. Finally when my wife and I took her home she had a place where she was the focus and could be fully loved. We gave her a peaceful and loving life these last number of years. You could see her joy that we made her such an integral part of our family.

     

    I know ultimately she’s now one with everything (and always was) and I feel her presence in my heart. I know the tenets of nonduality believe me.

     

    Maybe a foolish question but my mind is tired at the moment and I feel awful. Even in the context of nonduality there’s still that hope, that spark that after I pass in the future I may connect with her again right? Maybe in some energetic, different type of body sort of way? Maybe like Rust Cohle said in True Detective- maybe we meld together in some sort of substance after death. One that can’t be described and isn’t like being fully extinguished but something we feel is real. I don’t know…just looking for a spark of hope here.

     

    I may be grasping at straws looking for an answer that soothes me in a forum for nonduality but I respect everyone’s insights here. You guys look deeply at things. Thanks 

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    Is it just me or does the idea often posited in nonduality forums that the reason for this apparent separation/reality/multiplicity is because the “Infinite was bored/wanted to pretend it wasn’t itself” seem very sophomoric and human-centric?

     

    THIS being bored or having desires is limiting….and THIS can’t be limited or shouldn’t have limits if it’s boundless. Isn’t it not one/not two? Doesn’t boredom imply a “one” that has some sort of feeling of lack? Just seems these explanations seem like something you’d hear at a Bible school class….tinted with Christianity and the “old man in the sky” having a personal reason to “create”…rather than THIS just being THIS, apparent separation or not.