Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | "False Ego" is a Deluded Condition

If you, the self, erroneously identify with the physical body—if you believe “I am the body”—then this deluded condition is called false ego.

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Just as the cells that make up the various organs in your body are not the same cells that made up those organs a few years ago, so the atoms and molecules that make up the various cells are not the same as a few years ago.

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The atoms and molecules that made up the cells within your body of five years ago (including the nerve and brain cells) now make up so many other things. On the other hand, not long ago the atoms and molecules in your present body were part of other objects or bodies.

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If there is no self in the body, then there is no reason not to treat that body—human or otherwise—the same as we treat any other composition of matter. The no-self world view is the basis, the rationale, for the uninhibited exploitation of other living entities.

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Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | Life is Attractive

We may think we are attracted to the beautiful body of a woman, but actually it is the spark of life which attracts us. When Marilyn Monroe “died”, when the life force left the material body, the body was no longer attractive. All that was left was a lump of unattractive matter that was thrown in the dirt. So is it logical to think that material energy is all-attractive? No. Life force or spirit is the attractive element.

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When we are attracted to a person, what we are really attracted to is the particle of life, i.e., atma. Without the presence of this atma, without life, you see a body for what it really is: just a hunk of blood, guts, flesh, bones, teeth, stool, mucus, hair, urine, bile, and so on—a bag of chemicals. The monetary value of this bag of chemicals called the material body is about $9. ...

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Life attracts life.

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The material body is valuable only when the infinitely valuable person is present within the body.

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The real value of the body lies not in the organization of its components, but rather in the self, in the person who operates and uses that body.

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