Posted by Alexpanait on November 07, 19103 at 23:18:52:
In Reply to: Re: Choice posted by R.Rangan on November 07, 19103 at 04:36:29:
: You say : "What I mean is: As a result of the fact that you exist, you HAVE to make decisions." - This itself is a presumption owing to the mind.
: Moreover, your statements revolve around the "idea" that you have no motives.
: But, the very fact that you "want" to share it or write or talk about it means that you DO have a motive. It is for you find out what that motive is, in a fundamental sense.
: Without judging or essing or evaluating or extrapolating or interpreting we all could be alive in our own childhood!
I understand that what I think to be a fact, is a presumption of the mind. But the idea that an idea is a presumption of the mind, is a presumption of the mind too. So whenever we claim to know something, this "knowing" is not ABSOLUTE because it is depending on the mind. But this conclusion itself is also depending on the mind. So where does this leave us? I still EXPERIENCE myself as having a mind and I cannnot experience it any other way, and that possibility DOES exist, I would have to CHOOSE to see it another way(but I have no motive).
You also say that my idea that there are no motives is depending on my mind, right? But also THIS conclusion depends on the mind. So it seems there is no solution to this problem but still my mind keeps thinking about what it has to do in my life, and it finds no answer. So to follow up on your next conclusion(the conclusion that I DO have a motive in life, because I clearly want to solve the question of what to DECIDE), how can I find this motive? I can only get information about it from my mind, but I just concluded that the mind is not an appropriate tool to get information because it cannot have certainty(and again, also this conclusion is a presumption of the mind) So to conclude my post: What shall I do??? It's all one big chaos: I think I exist but I do not know for sure, but I also do not know for sure if I do not know for sure that I exist. And still I EXPERIENCE my life as real and therefore I EXPERIENCE that I can make decisions, and therefor I EXPERIENCE a mind, and therefor I experience that my mind cannot make decisions because it lacks motives. It drives me crazy..