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Answer: YOU are the pearlFrom: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2010-03-15 13:45:21
Remote IP: 76.247.152.202
MessageYOU are the pearl. It's just your consciousness crystallized
so that it's easier to identify and work with, as opposed to working
on it in the abstract. You can't "not" hang on to it. It's
YOU after all. The two are inseparable. Cultivating the
pearl is cultivating YOU. The point of strengthening, cultivating,
and refining the pearl so that it can continue to live on
consciously after death, is to strengthen, cultivate and
refine YOU so that YOU can continue to live on consciously
after death.
In the strictest Daoist sense, I'm oversimplifying things a bit,
but that's my style ^_^
If we want to get fancy with language, YOU are the amalgam
of the LING (prenatal soul which exists beyond death normally)
and the XIN (heart-mind; postnatal expression formed by the unified
five shen, which does NOT exist beyond death normally). Then
the pearl is a crystallization of your XIN via an energetic
vessel holding the FIVE SHEN. If this vessel is cultivated so
that it exists beyond death, then together with the already
immortal LING, YOU then continue to exist beyond death; otherwise,
only the LING continues on--which by itself is just a skeletal
version of you, emotionless with no goals, akin to a "Stepford wives"
version of you.
But ignoring all the fancy-schmancy talk using formal lingo which
I usually avoid, to KEEP THINGS SIMPLE, in a nutshell, basically
YOU are the pearl.
Sing it with me now ;)
(sung to "We are the World")
You are the pearl.
You are the children.
You are the one who makes a brighter day
So now start living
There's a choice you're making
You're saving your own life
It's true you'll make a better day
Just you and you
Smiles,
Steven
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