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Re: I Me Mine

Jan 10, 1997 04:49 AM
by John Straughn


Tom Robertson writes:
>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 substancethat makes up 
>what has identity is eternal.  I believe it was in "The Keyto Theosophy" 
>that HPB said that "Atman is no individual property of anyhuman being."
But what of Buddhi?  Isn't that eternal as well?
---
The Triaist



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