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RE: INDEPENDENT
Good to be back. Thank you. Awesome question... What comes to mind is the difference between independent and individual. How to be dependent and still a unique individual.
Good to be back. Thank you. Awesome question... What comes to mind is the difference between independent and individual. How to be dependent and still a unique individual.
Ah yes, being an individual is also incredibly difficult... But what I actually meant was: if we were to completely renounce any aspirations beyond the bare necessities of life – would that be true independence? Or does life itself already make us dependent?
Oh. I see. I have heard that there are yogis who desire to become completely independent to the point where they simply merge with the energetic source of everything. Way beyond sensual perception and the mind. Just energy. They desire to give up even their sense of individuality and there is no need for independence or dependence if they merge. It's a kind of suicide out of frustration caused by the sufferings of birth and death old age and disease. and not being able to control without interference from others or the elements, etc. So taking the desire for freedom even to the nth degree nonexistence.... as an entity... simply merged with the totality of energic source.. there is still no real independence. As I see it. There is no getting away from dependent. The yogi is dependent on something to merge with.... It's just who we are.. Parts of something bigger.... Thanks for the discussion... making me dig deep...
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It looks like the question is "What is it that WE ARE ALL a part of and dependent on?" That leads to spirituality and higher planes of existence. A great way to spend life... searching out the answer to this.
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