Our brain will create an image of ourselves for each and every one type of person we encounter, adding some features especially for each individual. When we meet a new person we instantly tag it amongst others like it and act accordingly in our pretense. Then, if it reaches that point and we get to know an individual closer we add more and more features to the designated mask.
One of the other common misconceptions of western civilization and part of the eastern too is that love is something higher, greater and other pompous attributes. In fact, one of the things it is is that a person, actually getting close enough, will make us create more and more features for ourselves that have that only one person as a reason. So there appear things that "i can only feel when I'm around him/her". Simple way of describing a deeper process.
The Emptiness is there, where feelings were or should have come if one was a lesser, untangled creature. The chemistry and brain functions involved in actually sharing your life for good with one person are far more abstract. How can one actually believe it's only about pheromones? Modern science teaches us shameful explanations for our existence.
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Really like the first paragraph, but I'm not sure I got the rest right.
RăspundețiȘtergereI agree, we're all inexhaustible masks generators, and we can pick or create a mask for each and every person we happen to come across at a certain moment. And it's already been established, millennia ago, that love, and extrapolating, any relationship, is based on a feeling that's nothing more than a primitive self-defence mechanism - neurotic projection. But the projection means, by definition, that you take something from you and you pour it into an exterior form: person or object.
Maybe I'm not getting it right, but are you saying that we are just a pile of representations about ourselves created by our brain, very fluid and different, depending on contexts and people we meet, but with no constant, invariant essence? Cause that would be a nonsense, it's like saying that when u get dressed, every time you put on other clothes, the form and substance of your body is changing. It's true that some clothes make u look better, thinner etc, but after all, it's still you. And please don't say that the Emptiness is the invariant...
No, the soul is the invariant! Physically, if it can be called that, Emptiness is the place where souls dwell, that means the plane of existence where they are before getting a shape, a body, and all the bodies where souls are. Emptiness is, therefore, everything, all beings included.
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