Re: Do you believe in reincarnation?
I take it the previous "tracer" was off the mark, so let's try it this way:
Yes, while I believe
I Am other than I AM
In Spirit and Truth.
No, when I Know
I Am the Self-Awareness
Of the Absolute.
[Rich Note; "All I can truly say is: 'I AM', all else is inference." (Sri Nisargadatta ("I AM THAT", 119).]
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[Rich Note: This was a bare bones version of a more complex response to a question posed by a New Friend who eventually forced a yes or no, instead of a yes and no (what I once called a quantum answer). I provide the first response as a subsequent comment.]
[Rich Note: Above referenced first response to the my New Friend's reincarnation question.]
Seen from here, the "reincarnation thing" as well as any other such question (Re: "free will," "good and evil," "faith and works," and the like) -- all depends on how one looks at it (Re: One's frame of Self/self-reference): Top-Down (re: Single, God's or All Seeing Eye, Quantum or Absolute) Point View or Perspective, No; Bottom-Up (re: Double minded or visioned, human, carnal, partial, particle state or relative) point of view or perspective, yes.
"If you want to change what you see, you have to change where you are looking from."
In truth, the only limit to any one's "particular breath of vision" is determined by mental focal length. For what we call our mind [which is really, a rather simple process of first narrowing mental focus to a point, and then sequentially minding "this" (one "thing" - a "think"or "conceptual unit of thought") while ignoring "that" (all other potential things or conceptual points one could otherwise be minding); and then using "me" as a centrally self-referenced point/data bank (just another "thing"), identified with and taken personally, to judge whether it is likely to "eat me, make love to me be irrelevant"] is really an activity not an object, a verb not a noun.
[Rich Note: A related Metaphysical Metaphor;
Re: Intro to Chapter 1 of OOMM:
Through a Glass Darkly, But Then Face to Face
The human mind is
A mental house divided
By relative thought.
(The carnal mind is
A mental house divided
By relative thought.)
"Mind is a mental process, not an object; a conscious movement arising in a much broader field of awareness. As such, minding is something we do, not something we have—this by first narrowing the focus of our awareness, minding “this” to the exclusion of “that,” and then constantly attending to shifting mental focal points. With all mental movement (and space-time) itself the result of said linear sequential shifts in attention from one focal point to another. All of which occurs within the single field in which all such centers naturally arise. Mind, as such, is a continuous process of mental self-polarization, reflection and conception with respect to the overall field of awareness one truly is—a rather miraculous process of self-creation enabling pure awareness to reflect upon itself, and in so doing give birth to its own self-awareness or consciousness of being."
Form-fixated mind
Loses sight and sense of the Field of awareness.
Narrowed Focus and
Shifting Attention causes
A sense of Space-Time.
(Love to You Both, Rich)]
Re: "...Through a Glass Darkly, But Then Face to Face..."
Mankind's subject to
The pseudo division of
Self-reflective thought.
The human mind is
A mental house divided
By self-reflection.
We are subject to
The pseudo division of
Self-reflective mind.
Self-reflective thought
Creates pseudo division
In One's Awareness.
Self-reflective mind
Creates pseudo division
In One's Awareness.
Suffering results
The pseudo self-division
Of relative thought.
I Am subject to
The pseudo self-division
Of self-reflection.
I Am subject to
The pseudo division of
Self-reflective mind.
We are subject to
The pseudo division of
Relative thinking.
Mankind's subject to
The pseudo division of
Self-referenced thought.
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