[MD] Reet and the Weakest Link

[MarshaV]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Platt Holden" <plattholden at gmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Reet and the Weakest Link


>
> {Ron]
>> the truth is only known to you.
>> It's about developing that within yourself
>> not a concrete definition that is
>> universally agreed upon.
>
> But as you know, Buddhists and others here and elsewhere claim
> the "self" is just an illusion. I guess this means anything you-the-
> illusion believe to be true is also just an illusion. Makes one wonder how
> we manage to get through the day -- but since "we" and "days" are
> illusions, too, we can only conclude that reality is but a dream. But,
> somehow I think it would be hard to convince a survivor of a suicide 
> bomber
> that her experience was just a figment of her imagination.
>

Hi Platt,

Not an illusion.  Self is empty of inherent existence.

That the self is an independent entity is an illusion.

Marsha