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Single Idea 8233
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
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Full Idea
Focus on fire rising through your form from the toes up until the body burns to ashes, but not you.
Gist of Idea
Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you
Source
Anon (Cent) (Centring [c.500 BCE], 28)
Book Ref
'Zen Flesh, Zen Bones', ed/tr. Reps,Paul [Penguin 1971], p.156
A Reaction
Try very hard to persuade yourself that you are immortal, even if you are not. Hm. Zen Buddhism actually contains very little commitment to what is true or false. It explores interesting beliefs like children playing with toys. Very post-modern.
The
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[survival of the human soul after death]:
5883
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Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal
[Pherecydes, by Cicero]
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7469
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There is no hereafter in the Book of Job
[Anon (Job), by Watson]
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7467
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The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras
[Pythagoras, by Watson]
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8233
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Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you
[Anon (Cent)]
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1513
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The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated
[Herodotus]
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20915
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The soul is destroyed with the body
[Democritus, by Ps-Plutarch]
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363
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Whether the soul pre-exists our body depends on whether it contains the ultimate standard of reality
[Plato]
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146
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Soul is always in motion, so it must be self-moving and immortal
[Plato]
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24037
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We all assume immortality is impossible
[Aristotle]
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20829
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Virtuous souls endure till the end, foolish souls for a short time, animal souls not at all
[Stoic school, by Eusebius]
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6039
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Stoics say virtuous souls last till everything ends in fire, but foolish ones fade away
[Stoic school, by ]
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7482
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Resurrection developed in Judaism as a response to martyrdoms, in about 160 BCE
[Anon (Dan), by Watson]
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5888
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Souls are born, since they are sensitive and inherited, so they must perish
[Panaetius, by Cicero]
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5720
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Spirit is mortal
[Lucretius]
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5722
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For a separated spirit to remain sentient it would need sense organs attached to it
[Lucretius]
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5725
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An immortal mind couldn't work harmoniously with a mortal body
[Lucretius]
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23360
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Each of the four elements in you is entirely scattered after death
[Epictetus]
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5765
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The reward of the good is to become gods
[Boethius]
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1863
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If the soul achieves well-being in another life, it doesn't follow that I do
[Aquinas]
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23306
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Humans have a non-physical faculty of reason, so they can be immortal
[Aquinas, by Sorabji]
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2378
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Belief in an afterlife is based on poorly founded gossip
[Hobbes]
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7831
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Spinoza's theory of mind implies that there is no immortality
[Spinoza, by Stewart,M]
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21876
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After death, something eternal remains of the mind
[Spinoza]
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12912
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Immortality without memory is useless
[Leibniz]
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21296
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If all of my perceptions were removed by death, nothing more is needed for total annihilation
[Hume]
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21797
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Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal
[Hegel]
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2916
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The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct
[Nietzsche]
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23902
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I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us
[Weil]
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7349
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Immortality based on judgement of merit was developed by the Egyptians (not the Jews)
[Johnson,P]
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7354
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The main doctrine of the Pharisees was belief in resurrection and the afterlife
[Johnson,P]
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6709
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Western religion saves us from death; Eastern religion saves us from immortality
[Graham]
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7817
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To make an afterlife appealing, this life has to be denigrated
[Grayling]
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7818
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In Greek mythology only heroes can go to heaven
[Grayling]
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5505
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For Aristotle the psyche perishes with the body (except possibly 'nous')
[Martin/Barresi]
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7468
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In ancient Athens the souls of the dead are received by the 'upper air'
[Watson]
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