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Post by Toasted Cheese on Feb 10, 2018 10:30:21 GMT
It's finite within the body you encompass, but that's not to dismiss the cycle of birth, life, death, rebirth. In that sense, it makes it infinite. But then again, the cycle can also be broken. It's called transcendence. Buddha and Christ realized this. Yeah, if you believe in reincarnation/a return to Earth it would be different, maybe, although there the issue would be that once a particular life is over, your memory is apparently wiped, so that for a particular conscious manifestation, it's as if there's no afterlife after all. That would only not be the case for folks who believe that their personal identity continues from life to life with some degree of conscious awareness and/or memory retention. It's the impermanence of it all, but only through the illusion of life here on earth. Consciousness is infinite\eternal. As for each of our earthbound experiences, I can't really answer if we recollect before rebirth, but much of our lives and where we are placed, is also part of the journey of our karma. It's all action and consequence and I'd like to think that you wouldn't refute this aspect of our lives. Due to consequence, NO-ONE gets away with anything in the end. That is just the simple law of the universe and creation. |
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