[ExI] Desires of Immortality {Terry}

[citta437 at aol.com]

Desires of immortality arise from memes and genetic processes of 
interactions. Desires are neither right nor wrong. Some memes/culture 
suppress some desires for fear of punishment or in anticipation of a 
reward, another mistake in thinking.

Genetic variations are seen as abnormalities like autism and some 
society feel pity on the individual with autism by projecting their 
idea of happiness or suffering as universal truth. Thoughts or ideas of 
happiness or suffering are movements of the mind being fed by memes. 
Let me quote a Zen master, Hsueh-Yen saying: "
""One moon appears everywhere in all bodies of water; the moons in all 
bodies of water are contained in one moon. This is a metaphor for one 
mind producing myriad things and myriad things producing one mind. This 
refers to dream illusions, flowers in the sky, half-seeming, half 
empty."

We are thoughts produced by the movement of our minds. Dreams/thoughts 
have no direct connection to reality like illusions of flowers in the 
sky. Why did Hsueh-yen thinks that illusions are half-seeming, half 
empty?

Is it due to an innate narcissitic tendency of an ego fed by thoughts 
of a self? Brain cells die and genes mutate which one are you? Thoughts 
come and go and some memories/thoughts imprinted in the brain die along 
with the death of some neurons as in dementia which is just a process 
of kinetic energy in the brain.

  If we cling to thoughts as if these processes are permanent, we suffer 
pschological distress. The prolonged mental torture cause the death of 
neurons and the cycle of energy undergoes changes from one physical 
form {aging and death].

The physical appearances of change maybe desirable or not depending on 
the observer [society]. If there is no observer, there is no 
thought/desire for happiness or aversion to suffering.

Terry