If you don’t like yourself,
why don’t you change yourself?
If you can change yourself,
who is really your ‘self’?– Stonepeace
Reflections from watching ‘A Ton Image’: If your clone vies for attention of your beloved, would you be jealous – of your double? Would there be a form of self-hate mixed with self-love? Would you compete with your ‘self’? Thank goodness karma and character, especially in terms of the three poisons of greed, hate and delusion cannot be cloned. (The body can be cloned but not the mind.) But if this is possible, would you be brave enough to face yourself?
Will you be empathetic or disgusted with yourself for ‘your’ weaknesses? Will you forgive or punish your clone for mistakes similar to yours? If you are very self-centered by nature, how do you centre on this extra ‘self’? Is it possible to care only for your clone? Would it be ultimate narcissism or the end of it? Recognising the others to have the same wish for True Happiness like yourself, as a reflection of you, how can you ever be self-centred – be it upon one, two or more ‘selves’?
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A clone is no more than another sentient being. Even under normal settings, we have situations where twins even fight with each other for the same thing. Of course if cloning really happen and our clones are exactly the same as us. There will come a day when one will realise that what we hold dear to ourselves about ourselves sometimes or even what we are proud of would actually be a nuisance to ourselves and others at times. Whatever we are capable of, our clone is capable. In the end, it is who we are that is driving us up our own walls. When two egos meet, one has to be deflated.
Love is always selfish no matter how great it sounds because it always consist of a lover and those who DESERVED to be loved. Therefore it is always exclusive to some. If not, it comes with an agenda. Love is not great because sometimes when you can’t get what you love, love becomes hatred. Not being able to fashion people out into the way we love it also becomes anger and hatred. LOVE is SELFISH because it needs to be reciprocated and we expects results the way we want it. Whatever we love and however we love, we are all at the receiving end ourselves.
Love can be a poison at times for there are those who are obssessed by it that they would rather give their precious human life to it.
Compassion is greater than love. This world needs compassion more than love.
The world does not need the carnal love that results in the abortion of millions of babies everyday when population is declining at everyday. The good karma of being born human diminishes by days.
The world does not need the selfish love of religion and race all leaving a trail of blood debt of animosity and hatred that continues to self perpetuate itself till this day. How great can love be?
The world does not need the love for insatiable personal gain, wealth and corruption while the other parts of the world goes hungry and sick.
The world does not need the selfish love for country for even the enemies we kill are humans as well who are equally selfless to their country. If only they have the dharma eye and understand rebirth would they see that even our enemies could well be our parents reborn in another state with other duties in a different form. Still the interest of the country come before man and it is the SELF interest of the country that every man cares to protect.
The world does not need powerful weapons and ammunition and sucking up to superpowers when other parts of the world has no proper toilets or sanitation (Einstein said that one day weapons maybe so powerful that we maybe fighting with sticks and stone;
10 men used to meet for lunch. One day 1 man came with a gun. The next day, every man came with one. Since then, everyday, they are stuck to their guns)
A billion men may have a billion different names but there is only one common name that we address ourselves which is “Iâ€.
Cut the self from your love and there you have “PURE LOVE†itself. To love is not to own it always.
“All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others†– Shantideva