09-25-2017, 01:18 PM
(09-25-2017, 11:13 AM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: I think in those cases are when you hear of the masters finishing their lives here and disappearing into a rainbow body from this dimension. I don't think you can remain here long if you were permanently ego-less. Although Eckhart Tolle is probably as close as they come to living without ego.
I can't speak for Tolle, but I would speculate that the difference for such expressions is akin to the difference between a standing pool of water, and a moving stream of water moving through a "dip" or eddy in the contour of the stream. In the second case, the dip is a constant flowing, never static, phenomenon. At death, the contour is no longer there to dip through. In the first case, the water is simply poured into a different pool, or container (reincarnation). The container, of necessity, creates some "seeming" self definition (to outward observers -- they see the movement through the dip and see it as an object). In one, the identity is rooted in some degree of unchangingness (identity resists change because change threatens identity). In the other, the identity is unchanging in its constant changingness. Changingness and unchangingness have come to be congruent phenomena in some strange and wonderful way.