Memories are beautiful when there is no one personally involved.

There are many memories there but are only remembered when I scroll back. In this case I scrolled back to the appropriate time and looked to see if there was a related memory. I would not say they are “my memories” – they are simply memories that have some association – they follow a thread back from the present. They are not facts but I have occasionally looked up some verifiable detail and found it accurate. It is simply information which is occasionally interesting or relevant. For the most part, it has no value.

No charge anymore, although originally they arose related to a charge so were often dramatic.

I know what you man about an individual. In a discussion after a talk this evening, someone mentioned that they felt like a probe, their body/mind moving through the world. This was meaningless for me. ‘Body’ is an object in the field of perception. There are memories there, but it’s more like a library than a possession now. A card catalog.

Memory is very curious though. Recently, I saw a memory arise, then saw the mind begin to edit it, imagine something better. I have also observed a thread of the past being released, causing the past itself to change. Revisionist history, it all is.

On your second paragraph question, both. Experiencing is not being.

It is interesting to consider, because if one is, so called, “born enlightened,” they would not be enlightened. We have ideas of enlightenment, but a child in that situation would not. Do you know what I mean?

People always say, “I know what it is, but I can’t get it,” or, “I listen to all of these gurus, and I know what it is supposed to be, but I can’t do it.” Well, is it they know it and can’t do it, or they can’t do it because they know it?

I have to take your word for what comes before. I have no memory of feeling separate, or some sense of that individuality. There are the memories, but they don’t seem to be used in the same way anymore. There is no charge (if that is the right word) attached to them.

My understanding of the old Vedic texts is that in a golden age, one still goes through ego formation but it is not dominant so may not be fracturing.

Ah, that is it. Without fragmentation. Whether it has happened or not, I do not know. It is supposition either way. And I am doubtful that it would come about due to some genetic factor, as it must be available to all, at any given time.

We both were born, and seem to have grown up in the average way, all experiences aside. I have the memories of what may have happened. I am sure there was someone, involved in these things. There must have been this hyper-attached individual in there somewhere. But while the memories of events may be, the memory of the individual has gone.

I remember all sorts of things, but i do not know how I remember them. It is frustrating to sit and try to remember the remembering.

hmm – if I go into deep memory for such a time, there was a sense of being separate for a time, a sense of becoming individual, but it had a character of being an illusion. There was actually odd games used at a certain age to make the experience clear so it could be moved past. It soon passed. It was a very small period of time in the larger picture as lives were much longer then. But I know how you feel about such things (laughs)

I see what you mean by the word “natural.” But it is not inevitable. That might be a better word to use in this case.

Whether something exists or seems to happen repeatedly means nothing. One cannot expect it to continue.

Is there a small or big relationship? Within fragmentation, can there be relationship at all?

Thus, it is a natural process for the ego to arise, to draw the person away from mother and family.

But is it necessary? If one did not occur, would the other not occur? Why is it necessary? I am not asking whether it happens or not. Rather, is it necessary?

Most humans kind of stalled out at that level of development. But now, things are stepping up a notch (or so) (or so)

Not necessarily the perceived world, but the fragmentation responsible for the separation of humanity. The mine and yours; my religion, my country, my politician, my belief, versus yours; or anything that may keep us in this seemingly continual state of defense.

We live within these fragments, and this is responsible for great suffering in the world. I was asking, without the beliefs to drive that separation, what would happen?

The perceived world, as you have pointed out, exists only in the mind. Some also call it the phenomenal world. This perceived world is an active perception with the interpreter; someone seeing and judging, evaluating and projecting. But this active participant is essentially blind to the world as it is.

The world, as it is, is untouchable. Our thoughts about it are insignificant. This is the world we place our thoughts and fantasies on top of, perhaps out of some need to feel control in an otherwise uncontrollable life. But when our attempts to control fail, and they inevitably do, our “world” seems to fall apart.

But please, do not take my word for it.

Anyhoo that’s my belief. And since it is all predicated on suffering I can only say BRING ON THAT VIRUS!

Haha. That is good. But of course, the virus would remove that belief. So what would you do then?

I have been taught, and one experience has shown me that, this perceived world is only inside the one mind being projected onto a field of thought. The illusion is sustained through the belief in it’s being real and suffering, which nurtures the ego, sustains that belief in it’s reality. Did that make sense or is it just a circular argument?

Anyhoo that’s my belief. And since it is all predicated on suffering I can only say BRING ON THAT VIRUS!