Questions that can enlighten CHristians, Muslims, etc etc..........

[GOD IS MY DOG]

People always think they have a permanent soul/self or an identity................ask yourself these questions.................



"Is physical form constant or inconstant?"

"Is feeling constant or inconstant?"

"Is perception constant or inconstant?"

"Are mental thoughts constant or inconstant?"

"Is consciousness constant or inconstant?



you'll realize the answers are always ''inconstant''...................so...............





How can you regard what is inconstant and subject to change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?



HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU'VE A PERMANENT SOUL OR SELF ???

 

[Agoraphobic]

I have an inconstant soul.

Or conscience.

Cheers!

 

[Unrepented]

Inconstant is constant :p

 

[palden]

Constant and variables. Change is a constant whereas reality is a variable. Reality is a constant and change is a variable.

 

[vamjok]

the decrease in money in my bank account is constant

 

[Ramseth]

the decrease in money in my bank account is constant

Any problem son, let your daddy know.

 

[Cruxx]

Our memories aren't permanent either. The recollection of a particular event changes with time. The fallibility of eyewitness recall, for instance, is well documented.

 

[vamjok]

Any problem son, let your daddy know.

replace the current govt, get the new one to solve our inflation issue, increase our wages. that the only way to solve my problem dad.

 

[Ramseth]

replace the current govt, get the new one to solve our inflation issue, increase our wages. that the only way to solve my problem dad.

Son, now we only got 6 MPs and 2 NCMPs, how to replace government?

 

[vamjok]

Son, now we only got 6 MPs and 2 NCMPs, how to replace government?

Sg how big only, 8 is more than enough to run. i dun believe need so many jia liao bee PAP ministar to run

 

[Clone]

"An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you."

- Quote from Inception (2010)

 

[Cruxx]

"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."

- V

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Son, now we only got 6 MPs and 2 NCMPs, how to replace government?

i think by next GE..................opposition will have double the number of MPs................

 

[Cruxx]

And after GE 2026, a new coalition government.

 

[kryonlight]

"Is physical form constant or inconstant?"
"Is feeling constant or inconstant?"
"Is perception constant or inconstant?"
"Are mental thoughts constant or inconstant?"
"Is consciousness constant or inconstant?
How can you regard what is inconstant and subject to change as: 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?
HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU'VE A PERMANENT SOUL OR SELF ???

The Buddha's strategy to enlightenment is not to deny there is a soul or a self, for that would be a path to annihilation-ism.

The Buddha's strategy is through contemplating on the five aggregates as 'not-self'. Frequent contemplation on the five aggregates as 'not-self' wears down craving for those five aggregates, which will eventually lead to the realization that there is really no soul and no self in truth and reality. (Well, craving is the house builder and you are that house.)

These are two different strategies, and only the one mentioned in the paragraph above is taught by the Buddha.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

The Buddha's strategy to enlightenment is not to deny there is a soul or a self, for that would be a path to annihilation-ism.

The Buddha's strategy is through contemplating on the five aggregates as 'not-self'. Frequent contemplation on the five aggregates as 'not-self' wears down craving for those five aggregates, which will eventually lead to the realization that there is really no soul and no self in truth and reality. (Well, craving is the house builder and you are that house.)

These are two different strategies, and only the one mentioned in the paragraph above is taught by the Buddha.

the self that i'm referring to is the one that most people are thinking of...........what you're saying is deeper than what they can understand.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

And after GE 2026, a new coalition government.

wah, so optimistic ah.........

 

[Clone]

the self that i'm referring to is the one that most people are thinking of...........what you're saying is deeper than what they can understand.

I find this book very useful for starters and has no religious mumbo jumbo IIRC.

>>>>

 

[Cruxx]

wah, so optimistic ah.........

Realistic rather.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Realistic rather.

hope so leh.................i might still be alive....................