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One should not imagine oneself to be one with the eye or
independent of it or the owner of it.
The same with ear and all the other senses, including the mind.
Nor should one imagine oneself to be identical with the world or
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A QUESTION ABOUT THE WORLD
Posted on Aug.26.2011 @ 10:12AM EDT by chontri

Is the world within you or without you?
Is it different from you or identical with you?
When you die, will the world die with you or not?

"The world, the cause of the world, the cessation of the world,
and the way to the cessation> of the world, I declare, exists
within our six foot body with perception and mind".

The Buddha

ChonTri 08/26/2011

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