Why does “individual life” start just to end?

[Bruins8000]

Obviously in an ultimate sense there are no individual selves/conscious entities…there is only THIS. However “individual selves” appear to exist. Why do they arise just to fade away? Why not eternal individual body-minds that don’t die off or why not the possibility of individual selves never arising at all?

 

I know ultimately there are no individual body-minds. However why even the appearance? Why come into being if it’s just going to perish? Wouldn’t eternal “ nodes of consciousness” or them never arising at all seem cleaner and simpler? Ultimately death doesn’t exist but the appearance of things dying and fading away does. In my bones I know it ultimately doesn’t matter what appears but WHY this particular appearance in this particular way? Thanks 

[Leo Gura]

See video: Understanding Impermanence

[Bruins8000]

Thanks Leo- I will

[Bruins8000]

So does human “life” or the appearance of separate selves have any great value or importance in itself? Or can it ultimately be seen as just another phenomenon, nothing greater than a bunch of planets or meteors flying around with no “observer” or some other random appearance?

[tsuki]

@Bruins8000 I dare you to find one single thing that starts and ends without changing form and turning into something else.

Edited December 20, 2021 by tsuki

[The0Self]

Why not?

It’s either start and end, or never start and never end.