tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30791559.post115608286480140699..comments2010-08-26T00:34:45.489-07:00Comments on rashmialways: When left is rightrashmialwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163358362045473786noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30791559.post-1156101606808386282006-08-20T12:20:00.000-07:002006-08-20T12:20:00.000-07:00What proof is there of causality? What proof that ...What proof is there of causality? What proof that anything other than this very moment ever existed or ever will? The mind holds nostalgia for the past and anticipatory fear for the future. And these are the only indications of the existence of those times other than the present. but even the existence of these memories and anticipation is only in the present. What if there is no causality, that the present is the only "real" thing? <BR/><BR/>Then the dance of the mind becomes the dance of the universe, and everything is beautiful. When we dance, do we lament for the posture past? Why not? Because each step is ephemeral.<BR/><BR/>Nostalgia is a state of mind, just as excited anticipation is. they are phases in the dance of life, and of the universe. Why assume any endings? Why assume any beginnings? For have we ever experienced our own beginning? Or shall we ever experience our own end?<BR/><BR/>Lament, fear, guilt exist because of a belief in the freedom of will. But if freedom of will truly exists, then the self is necessarily beyond the physical realm, the self is then definitely more than the mind, which is just physiohemical changes in the brain. So if the self is beyond the physical, its being tainted by physical temporality must be an illusion.<BR/><BR/>Watching the self as if watching an elegent rendition Tai Chi fluidity shows how beautiful the lows of lifes are, for to spring up into a lively posture, one has first to bend.<BR/><BR/>When the bending is part of a fluid dance, the lows are the prelude to the highs, and the highs are the promise of repetition of the cycle, the circle of existence, the zero.Aditya Varun Chadhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00814396891912251042noreply@blogger.com