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Re: I Me Mine

Jan 09, 1997 09:07 PM
by Tom Robertson


On Fri, 10 Jan 97, John Straughn <JTarn@envirolink.org> wrote:

>Tom Robertson writes:

>>I don't believe there is an unchangeable real me.  Individuality is a
>>temporary illusion.  Whatever had a beginning must have an end.

>Can you say for sure that you had a beginning?  And can you prove this?  >Mind you I am not saying of the physical sense, but everything as one.  >Can you prove that everything that makes up *you* had a beginning?

Anything that has identity is temporary.  Only the homogeneous substance
that makes up what has identity is eternal.  I believe it was in "The Key
to Theosophy" that HPB said that "Atman is no individual property of any
human being."


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