Sentience

• An Eternal Now

  21 Oct 07, 10:54

  Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:

  So unconcious behaviour is not self? Then why do animals and humans have instinct? There will be and always be karmic and mental factors even in deep meditation.

  I'm not sure what you mean.
  
  Conscious and unconscious behavior, all is not self, and there is no self to be found. No self does not mean no existence, it means no separate and permanent/fixed entity of a self.
• Herzog_Zwei

  22 Oct 07, 10:13

  Originally posted by An Eternal Now:

  I'm not sure what you mean.
  
  Conscious and unconscious behavior, all is not self, and there is no self to be found. No self does not mean no existence, it means no separate and permanent/fixed entity of a self.

  Then why bother to think?
• An Eternal Now

  22 Oct 07, 10:47

  Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:

  Then why bother to think?

  To get things done.