Buddhist Concepts

 

“Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.”

Buddha

To Serve

For some reason, my mind jumped to the thought of man possibly becoming obsolete...

To Serve...what function does many have upon the earth?
for Brevity, there are people such as Sitchen who point to "gods" from other worlds coming to earth and creating humanity.

The biblical traditions all have us serving "God"

Man has been creating tools, machines and computers to serve him for millennia.

And then I think of AI - people creating machines that they literally are making in humanity's image, along with all of the human qualities including emotion and the ideas of right and wrong...

This is far to in depth of a subject to explore here...

What are the major reasons for our existence, the existence of any being?

If we are here to serve, and there are better ways to serve whatever it is that holds this reality that humanity exists in, with humanity failing to do this.. 

Might humanity be repurposed, or might humanity become extinct?

What Life is "Supposed to Be"

This question probably has as many answers as there are consciousnesses in existence.  Life for any one consciousness is different than for any other.

Even two atoms of air occupy different spaces, or as waves have variously differing vibrations and spaces in which they are operating.

And yet, atoms come together as molecules, and though these slight differences persist, there are also similarities in function.

moving up to humanity...we are inundated with so much information guiding our consciousness as to what life is "supposed to be"....

And yet, the reality of our private lives rarely matches this supposedly idealistic goal. Nor do even our desires.  

We are inundated with so much information...is there even enough time in a day to manifest the world programs that seems to be fighting for and enlisting as many as possible to produce the goals of these vast social agendas masquerading as personal ideals?

Philosophy - The Diamond Approach - Individuality as Memories

Memories Compose the Sense of Oneself as a Separate Individual
The sense of oneself as a separate individual, which as we have seen depends upon the development of a cohesive self-image, can be seen as composed of memories and, in fact, cannot exist without its connection to memories, to personal history. But the memory of a person is not the same as a person. The memory is of something that supposedly existed at some point in the past.

Pearl Beyond Price, pg. 27 - The Diamond Approach

Philosophy - Neville Goddard

In the very end, you are going to find Who-You-Are; and when you find Him, you are the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord God Jehovah. And then will come that inevitable moment when that end is reached that you take off the garment, and you are one with Eternity; and all those who preceded you are not greater than you because they have preceded you. No, -- you are all the same, -- the Brotherhood. And that one brotherhood forms the one God and Father of all.  

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So don’t condone anyone. Leave them alone. When they are suffering, let your heart go out to them and express mercy, for you’ve gone through it. Or else, you will go through it, for not one will come out until he is perfect, as his Father is perfect. And the Father had to go through every experience of man to be perfect. And you are going to go through, or you have gone through -- I dare say you have gone through; that’s why you are here -- all the experiences of humanity. And in the end, you are God the Father

-Neville Goddard - Consigned to Disobedience, April 23, 1971

If I  told you at this very moment that you  are not altogether sitting in the place where you seem to be before my eyes, --- you are an infinite being, -- but how to describe it? How to tell you that at this very moment, while you seem to be all put together and collected in a thought and listening to me, that you are not all here?  It doesn't make sense. Yet I tell you that your are not.  You are an Infinite Being.

-Neville Goddard 

 

In the very end, you are going to find Who-You-Are;... And then will come that inevitable moment when that end is reached that you take off the garment, and you are one with Eternity; and all those who preceded you are not greater than you because they have preceded you. No, -- you are all the same...

-Neville Goddard - Consigned to Disobedience

 

Philosophy - Hume

from: David Hume -The School of Life Articles | Formerly The Book of Life

Hume’s philosophy is built around a single powerful observation: that the key thing we need to get right in life is feeling rather than rationality. It sounds like an odd conclusion. Normally we assume that what we need to do is train our minds to be as rational as possible: to be devoted to evidence and logical reasoning and committed to preventing our feelings from getting in the way. 

But Hume insisted that, whatever we may aim for, ‘reason is the slave of passion.’ We are more motivated by our feelings than by any of the comparatively feeble results of analysis and logic.

...for Hume, a human is just another kind of animal.

We find an idea nice or threatening and on that basis alone declare it true or false. Reason only comes in later to support the original attitude.  

...he firmly believed in the education of the passions. People have to learn to be more benevolent, more patient, more at ease with themselves and less afraid of others. But to be taught these things, they need an education system that addresses feelings rather than reason.

“When I enter most intimately into what I call myself,” he famously explained, “I always stumble on some particular perception or other... I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.” Hume concluded that we aren’t really the neat definable people reason tells us that we are and that we seem to be when we look at ourselves in the mirror or casually use the grand misleading word I, we are “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.”

The test of a belief isn’t its provable truth, but its utility.

He argued that morality isn’t about having moral ideas, it’s about having been trained, from an early age, in the art of decency through the emotions. Being good means getting into good habits of feeling.

Philoshopy - Sarte

from: Jean-Paul Sartre -The School of Life Articles | Formerly The Book of Life

 Sartre is acutely attentive to moments when the world reveals itself as far stranger and more uncanny than we normally admit; moments when the logic we ascribe to it day-to-day becomes unavailable, showing things to be highly contingent and even absurd and frightening.

To be Sartrean is to be aware of existence as it is when it has been stripped of any of the prejudices and stabilising assumptions lent to us by our day-to-day routines. 

Everything is (terrifyingly) possible because nothing has any pre-ordained, God-given sense or purpose. Humans are just making it up as they go along, and are free to cast aside the shackles at any moment. 

...we are fully alive and properly aware of reality, with its freedom, its possibilities and its weighty choices.

Science Tesla