Comments on Crash Landing: Nirvana and Kenosis

I alwasys want to have a lot of gw gold and then i...

2008-12-23T03:54:00.000-05:00

I alwasys want to have a lot of gw gold and then i will give my friends some GuildWars Gold to make them strong. I like to earn the Guild Wars Gold and also want to get a lot of GuildWars money,sometimes i will get some cheap gw gold to buy some weapons.

The diamond self transcends everything, right? So...

2007-07-11T22:58:00.000-04:00

The diamond self transcends everything, right? So "I" am a part of it, or an instantce of it, right?

Even if you say it's "not much" to annihilate, from the "ego's perspective" it is annihilation. This isn't very negative, it seems a statement of fact. Even Christians speak of dying "in Christ".

What happened to karma & reincarnation? Reaping wh...

2007-07-09T12:10:00.000-04:00

What happened to karma & reincarnation? Reaping what you sow -- over one or many lives...See John Masefield, 'A Creed'.

"If identity is fundamentally an illusion, as Budd...

2007-07-09T02:03:00.000-04:00

"If identity is fundamentally an illusion, as Buddhists seem to suggest, it seems unavoidable to hold the view that "one" who holds such an illusion is faced with annihilation upon enlightenment..."

1) If the ego is an illusion, it's really not much to "annihilate.
2) Buddhism also contains the idea of the "diamond self."