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| Re: Define "being"
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Originally Posted by midas77  It seems we are talking of different "beings". I subscribe to Martin Heidegger's basic differentiation of being=entities or things, Being=that which makes all beings being. Another meaning of being that seems to surface in this 4 pages thread is the being as in my well-being which i see as consciousness.
vajrasattva, there is one part of Indian Philosophy I really like. The Athman-Brahman view of the "universe". When we inquire outside what we end up with is Brahman, the Ultimate Thing, and we inquire inside, what we see is Athman, the Ultimate self. That philosophical concept is very very old but I am really mesmerized by the beauty of it. To think of it, the very foundation of reality is in actuality is the very root to which my self is made, enthralls me. | Yeah, there seems to be a battle of semantics more than anything else!  |