Why living beings are selfish?

[abrakamowse]

12 minutes ago, Moksha said:

Except ourSelf

[Moksha]

@Breakingthewall Fortunately, we don't need to understand anything. Trying to understand is the reason for insanity in the first place.

Just be.

Edited November 3, 2020 by Moksha

[Breakingthewall]

3 minutes ago, Moksha said:

@BreakingthewallAfortunadamente, no necesitamos entender nada. Tratar de comprender es la razón de la locura en primer lugar.

Ser sólo.

We don't need but we can't avoid. It's on our nature, but I think that the reality can't be caught for the mind

[abrakamowse]

10 minutes ago, Moksha said:

Trying to understand is the reason for insanity

So true...

[Batman]

This is question is awesome. 

Try to see what is behind "survival", by asking what it really is, and what gave rise to it.

One may suggest that survival is the activity produced to prevent the dissolution of a "living" form. But ultimately, the most fundamental substance of all form - whether animate or inanimate - is the same. If this is the case, than your process of human form dissolution is no difference than the erosion of a rock. The only distinction therefore is that a life-form may change its behavior in order to fight the dissolution, and that it may have the capability to reproduce. 

In the end, it is all a play of form. Maybe you should inquire how 'life' (or the 'active' fight against dissolution of form) and living-forms began in the first place. It is possible that somehow, inanimate form was randomly or suddenly rearranged in a formation that gave rise to the capability of resisting it's dissolution, transforming it to a life-form. But I never inquired this, so I will hand it over to you. You can start by researching the tiniest organisms of life-forms on planet earth. Why would Amoeba would care to exist at all? 

 

[Lyubov]

Every being is entitled to their survival and your survival isn't something to passively demonize or see as something useless. As conscious beings we can go about survival though in more compassionate ways where we aren't being wasteful and treading as lightly as we can to allow for the survival of all life. It's part of the grand design after all. Survival isn't something bad but as a finite creature you can never be 100% selfless. You will always have a tiny bit of selfishness as you need to survive. Nothing wrong with this and it is because of this we can experience the joys of life. 

Edited November 4, 2020 by Lyubov

[Gesundheit]

@Breakingthewall Humans don't understand how computers work. Understanding is impossible.

[Gesundheit]

6 hours ago, Javfly33 said:

So that´s basically my question. Why the inertia of surviving exists at all?

Because the ego-mind does not like to change. In essence, the ego-mind is nothing but conditioning/fear. If the conditioning is gone, then what's left? The body, but the body is also conditioning. If the body stops being conditional, it will dissolve and die. It will become unconditional.

[Carl-Richard]

Survival is based on the proliferation of differences, the truth of impermanence, the evolutionary impulse, the ever-changing nature of the universe. Without differences, without change, without evolution, the universe cannot express itself through form.

[Moksha]

16 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

We don't need but we can't avoid. It's on our nature, but I think that the reality can't be caught for the mind

Conceptual understanding is in our human nature. Nonconceptual understanding is in our being nature. One leads to insanity, the other leads to clarity. Take your pick.

[Breakingthewall]

5 hours ago, Moksha said:

Conceptual understanding is in our human nature. Nonconceptual understanding is in our being nature. One leads to insanity, the other leads to clarity. Take your pick.

And try conceptual understanding of the non conceptual understanding is double insanity, but our minds educated in the concept can't stop triying

[Moksha]

9 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

And try conceptual understanding of the non conceptual understanding is double insanity, but our minds educated in the concept can't stop triying

Eventually you reach the point where your mind is tamed. It may still strain at the harness every now and then, but it learns to behave.

[Shin]

20 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

And try conceptual understanding of the non conceptual understanding is double insanity, but our minds educated in the concept can't stop triying

You can stop trying

[Byun Sean]

Because if they weren't you wouldn't be here

[Nahm]

On 11/3/2020 at 4:22 PM, Javfly33 said:

What is "evolution" but just a thought??

 

On 11/3/2020 at 3:47 PM, Javfly33 said:

Why the inertia of surviving exists at all? 

 

[zeroISinfinity]

@Nahm Man this is 1st time you didn't wrote any response/explanation. 

Are you well? 

Edited November 5, 2020 by zeroISinfinity

[Nahm]

@zeroISinfinity

Thought the answer was there in the question really. 

[Moksha]

@Nahm As all answers are.

[zeroISinfinity]

43 minutes ago, Moksha said:

@Nahm As all answers are.

God.