Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01212)

>>>JS
>>>You have lost me here.  No bodies, however we
>>>want to define them, have "independent existences."
>>>
>>Jerry:
>>
>>Wanna Bet?

>     I think we have a semantics problem.  I am
>not referring to "independent" as in "external" but
>rather as in not needing anything else to survive.  As
>far as I am concerned, all "bodies" on all planes, can
>only exist if they are infilled with a consciousness.  In
>other words, an objective body has to have a subjective
>self within it.  JHE was implying that after we die, we
>will receive a body (kama-rupa) that was either standing
>around waiting for us, or made by someone at that instant
>in time just for us to inhabit, and until we enter it, it is
>entirely independent of us.  I don't buy that.  Besides,
>technically no living thing can ever be "independent"
>as all living things must depend on something (food,
>energy, communication, whatever).
>
>     Jerry S.
>     Member, TI


      Jerry, if this is your interpretation of what I wrote, then
I think our problem is a lot deeper than "semantics."


JHE

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