Love Your Neighbor

I posted it because the circle will not be unbroken.

 

You said whenever "your" ego is being trampled on, a favor is being done to "you" because a chunk of "it" is broken off and "you" are freed a little more.

I was point out that is all ego as well. Ego being both the prisoner and the constable. Apparently you have many more chunks before you are free. Infinitely many perhaps.

 

To share thoughts is to think on parallel lines.Who cares about circular reasoning?

 

The circle in this case is a metaphor for loving one's neighbor.

 

Yes tit for tat is circular reasoning. We love because it is the only sane reaction to being alive.

 

You make an endless amount of absolutist-style claims that almost never strike me as convincing or even reasonably stated.
Good bye.

 

respect the wild

 

Of which not one I will ever know because you are in no wise specific with terms like endless amount. To me what you just said is an impressionistic response not a reasoned one.

 

Maybe I used bad semantics. When being trampled on or disrespected the ego gets damaged and part of it falls away to reveal my true identity that can never be harmed. That's the experience anyway.

 

Whose true identity?
It isn't merely a word game.

 

I'll just describe it as seeing what is. Ego disappears. Anything that can vanish isn't real.

 

there are two levels of identification, the same and different

 

Since we ask who our neighbor is how about our enemy?
Love has no enemy but fear makes love seem obscure. All expressions of love are maximal. Loving anyone could consist simply of a moments positive regard, a polite attention, or honorable consideration. There is no calculating how much a smile toward a stranger on an elevator can lighten the load of the world. One thing you cannot do and love your enemy at the same time is defend yourself against him. We defend ourselves against perceived threat or the fear of harm and that fear is a limit on our giving. He perceives you enemy for the same reason, perceiving you a threat. We perceive enemies for the sake of fear not out of love or for the sake of protection. Fear's purpose is not to protect you but to hold love at bay. Disarm to end the arms race. You will know no enemies for long when you are in love. Love protects, fear is only suspicious to savage.

 

Who is the one who sees it disappear?

 

The one who is the same

 

Don't we all vanish at some point in time? Aren't we real? Or am I misinterpreting that line?

 

Your interpretation has to do with what you identify as being we all. As far as illusory concepts, they are not made better in truth but are dispelled by it.

 

This could work through the going into the dark ages of the, for instance, loss of understanding and practice of the Laws of Nature in the sciences for comfort and progress. But then again the catacombs and the early Christians was the reaction of mankind to the approaching of those dark ages (e.g. theocracy in the Holy Roman Empire for the Gauls).

 

What is practical is what we practice at. Practice makes perfect practice.

 

The witness who is always there and is one with everything or the "same" as thedope said.