Comments on: Self-Esteem First, Self-Transcendence Later http://www.soulkadee.com/2006/09/19/self-esteem-first-self-transcendence-later/ An Appetite For Life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:28:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: BHARAT http://www.soulkadee.com/2006/09/19/self-esteem-first-self-transcendence-later/#comment-35923 BHARAT Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:34:22 +0000 http://www.soulkadee.com/2006/09/19/self-esteem-first-self-transcendence-later/#comment-35923 ITS GOOD FOR REFERANCE TO READERS ITS GOOD FOR REFERANCE TO READERS

]]> By: Saleem Rana http://www.soulkadee.com/2006/09/19/self-esteem-first-self-transcendence-later/#comment-1331 Saleem Rana Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:54:04 +0000 http://www.soulkadee.com/2006/09/19/self-esteem-first-self-transcendence-later/#comment-1331 Here is another way of understanding this paradox. The self is a transcendent consciousness. It is not limited to a particular body or a particular lifetime. Because it is not anything in particular, the "I" is not an "it." This is why Buddhists say there is no-self. Similarly, the world itself is entirely illusory. I don't mean this metaphorically or even psychologically. At the subatomic level, again there is no substance. There are just probability patterns that literally flit in and out of existence! For example, a psi electron can appear under an observing instrument then disappear, then reappear again. There literally is no stuff! Yet to all purposes, on the macroscopic level, both an intelligent being and an intelligible world appear to exist. On this level, personal growth and advancement is necessary, not because it means anything on a cosmic scale, but because there is literally nothing else to do with this adventure of life. You can either resist evolution and suffer all kinds of lack or you can embrace evolution and the refining of mind and enjoy fulfillment of resources and experiences. Thus, when you look at things from the view of levels of perception, all contradictions disappear, just as the contradiction of day and night disappears when you understand that the sun and earth are in a cosmic dance. Here is another way of understanding this paradox.

The self is a transcendent consciousness. It is not limited to a particular body or a particular lifetime. Because it is not anything in particular, the “I” is not an “it.” This is why Buddhists say there is no-self.

Similarly, the world itself is entirely illusory. I don’t mean this metaphorically or even psychologically. At the subatomic level, again there is no substance. There are just probability patterns that literally flit in and out of existence! For example, a psi electron can appear under an observing instrument then disappear, then reappear again. There literally is no stuff!

Yet to all purposes, on the macroscopic level, both an intelligent being and an intelligible world appear to exist.

On this level, personal growth and advancement is necessary, not because it means anything on a cosmic scale, but because there is literally nothing else to do with this adventure of life. You can either resist evolution and suffer all kinds of lack or you can embrace evolution and the refining of mind and enjoy fulfillment of resources and experiences.

Thus, when you look at things from the view of levels of perception, all contradictions disappear, just as the contradiction of day and night disappears when you understand that the sun and earth are in a cosmic dance.

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