Poke Around nova antiquae pot luck rings quizzes buttons 'n' such profile Contact: AIM signage notes in real life Credits: host design Current Status Reading:my to do list Object of Procrastination:Studying for AMS midterm T-minus:11 hours 'til I can go home | 2003-10-14 @ 10:14 a.m.
Of course, in a truly Buddhist view, there would be no �I� have sensations, perceptions, mental formations, etc. The I in this example is merely and illusion created by the tangle of aggregates that calls itself Sarah. I do not feel like that is correct. The five aggregate theory is certainly plausible; as in the above example, it seems that everything in any given circumstance can be described by the interaction of these five things. However, I cannot escape the conviction that there is something else, some �me-ness,� that exists beyond those five things. There is a consistent idea of �this is who I am,� that remains the same even when thoughts, desires, feelings, and beliefs change. Although thoughts do seem just to appear, I can think about what caused them to appear, which, to me, seems to imply that if there is thinking about thinking, there must be something that thinks those thoughts. 1:38 pm Just because I have to share the good news with something: I got 17.5/20 on my Bhagavad-Gita paper! Woo-hoo! I also "seem philosophically astute." I'm going to bake Frank Perkins cookies for that compliment. Thought of the Day: Meta-cognition is fun, kids!
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