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Buddhism

bjobotts

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6. It is not seperate from you

Reply to jberryhill (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:56 PM

Sep 2012

It is only separate from your identity...the separation identity...separation from the source which both contains and sustains it. There is only God...but the ego always thinks it's 'Me' and God. Nature is part of the world of forms. Ask a blind man how beautiful nature is. The ego explores the forms it creates but they are not real for there is only God and the last desire should be to have no more desires and just be one with the source or god. Such a long way to travel for a place so close.

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Would nature be beautiful if we were not here to see it? [View all] jberryhill Sep 2012 OP

No. rrneck Sep 2012 #1

Is Nature beautiful? Downwinder Sep 2012 #2

No, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. rocktivity Sep 2012 #3

Yeah, they always fall on bjobotts Sep 2012 #7

Are we the only arbiters of beauty? silverweb Sep 2012 #4

Yes because Shankapotomus Sep 2012 #5

It is not seperate from you bjobotts Sep 2012 #6

We are nature looking at itself jberryhill Sep 2012 #8

My cats like to look outside, too htuttle Sep 2012 #9

Are we so special that beauty exists only if we are present to precieve beauty? defacto7 Sep 2012 #10