Hi Diebert.
D:This way the sensation of pain is as defining as any contemplation on suffering.
S: It may be as defining to you, but yet they are NOT one and same thing, by definition if you like. Are they?
D: Essentially they are (sensation of pain and contemplation on suffering). It's why I guess Genius has been defined somewhere here in the instructional section as "the infinite capacity for giving pain." :-)
Well, they might go Ouch! in either case, but I don’t have to go by how they define it or feel the sensation. My experiences tell me otherwise, so I’m kind of helpless ;D
Does this mean you'd found the mother answer: that it's all slave mentality and egotistical imagining? Or is it just an opinion to consider?
What!?
I’m saying that there isn’t really a mother of all questions to begin with, and you are asking me If I have found the mother answer?
Nevertheless, it could still be just a reflection of eternity: fleeting shadows could be said to have by definition somewhat of a slave mentality and a wild "imagining"of what they think they are. So you might ask: how could a lie still form a truth?
Sure, it could, and hence, knowing that, why would I ask what you think I might ask? When I perfectly
know that indulging in valuing truths over lies is an egotistical activity to begin with. Anything that I
know is egotistical in nature in any case, including
knowing that itself. And I have no problem with that; but if someone does, then that’s his/her business; all I can sincerely say is good luck to them.