It's true on one level that everything seems to be changing, an idea which is based on sense-perception. It seems to be common-sense that changes occurs over time because that is what we perceive - motion.
But, when taken to extremes we may realize that nothing changes - one thing cannot become another thing; change is impossible; things don't really move about; motion itself is just an illusion. The doctrine of non-origination, "Ajativada", is the basic realization in the Advaita tradition. This means that nothing was ever created. Things do not move about - motion is an impossibility. All these notions are like seeing the horns of a hare. Gaudapada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudapada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudapada ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emily.mae50@...> wrote : Reminds me of this quote: Heraclitus — 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.' ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <wayback71@...> wrote : If you read on thru to the last /14 of the uncertainty blog about Deepak, there is a summary of a debate between a scientist, Sean Carroll, and Eben Alexander, MD (best selling author who claims he went to heaven in a NDE). Here is what jumped out at me: that Carroll said life is a process like fire, not a substance like wood. An obvious and simple distinction. But I think he nails the fundamental "mistake" in thinking. What a shift in thinking for me, especially if I substitute the big C for life. I have always mentally imagined Consciousness as a "thing," even if incredibly refined, subtle, fluid, and all pervasive. I have to apply this new thought to old ideas.
