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**MARMELADINA** · 08-24-2011, 12:03 PM

The words you speak, the gestures you make, the words you write, all these things continue to have effects long after this body has become dust. I don't see anything else that continues or is reborn. Cultivating compassion and the 8-fold path are not requirements, but can make this life better, as well as the lives of future beings. Without compassion and without a Self to be reborn, there's not much motivation to care what happens to future beings. They aren't 'you' any more than this ongoing series of experiences is 'you'. I think.

08-24-2011, 12:03 PM	#4
MARMELADINA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 427 Senior Member	The words you speak, the gestures you make, the words you write, all these things continue to have effects long after this body has become dust. I don't see anything else that continues or is reborn. Cultivating compassion and the 8-fold path are not requirements, but can make this life better, as well as the lives of future beings. Without compassion and without a Self to be reborn, there's not much motivation to care what happens to future beings. They aren't 'you' any more than this ongoing series of experiences is 'you'. I think.
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