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**Clilmence** · 11-02-2011, 04:00 PM

Here is where I get stuck, FBM. Maybe is just about semantics. The teachings of Buddha are very accurate about rebirth. What I experience when reading a poem is just an image, as a mind object... not a rebirth of any person, even if the poem is recited by someone... what really happens are mind objects seducing mind as a sense organ. In the unaware mind it can be the case of the birth of self... why re-birht?

It seems to me that you're reifying "poem", "image" and "mind object" as if they were fixed entities. Instead, they are fleeting, transient phenomena. I don't have a problem with saying that they're reborn when they are picked up and reproduced. Nor do I have a problem with the common expressing "giving birth to an idea." It's just a way of using language as a tool to point to an idea. The word isn't the idea, just a pointer.

11-02-2011, 04:00 PM	#34
Clilmence Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 421 Senior Member	Here is where I get stuck, FBM. Maybe is just about semantics. The teachings of Buddha are very accurate about rebirth. What I experience when reading a poem is just an image, as a mind object... not a rebirth of any person, even if the poem is recited by someone... what really happens are mind objects seducing mind as a sense organ. In the unaware mind it can be the case of the birth of self... why re-birht? It seems to me that you're reifying "poem", "image" and "mind object" as if they were fixed entities. Instead, they are fleeting, transient phenomena. I don't have a problem with saying that they're reborn when they are picked up and reproduced. Nor do I have a problem with the common expressing "giving birth to an idea." It's just a way of using language as a tool to point to an idea. The word isn't the idea, just a pointer.
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