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The Questions of King Milinda and rebirth
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11-02-2011, 10:34 AM
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corolaelwis
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Yes, that and more. Other abstract things, emergent phenomena, are included. For example, you beat your kid and make her into a distrustful, angry person, which affects her relationships for the rest of her life, potentially, which affect innumerable people in a potentially infinate number of ways. Patterns of behavior tend to replicate. Not in a strict deterministic way, but tendencies.
To the best of my understanding, even what we commonly consider to be solid objects are only representationally real, not things-in-themselves. Even our corporeality is a mental construct. Useful, even necessary, but it creates an illusion of certainty and continuously existant entities. I've found this to be a position consistent with ordinary observation as well meditative absorption experiences.
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