[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 10:29 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
>
> Hi Marsha,
>
> You mean there's another Marsha somewhere? One can only hope. :-)
>
> Platt
>

Hi Platt,

Marsha is an ever-changing, collection of overlapping, interrelated, 
inorganic, biological, social and intellectual, static patterns of value. 
Interconnected to all other patterns.  Nothing independent about her. :-)

 me