Being for others

[GrowingSmaller]

Ok I am human, but some buddhists see everyone as a buddha or bodishattva, some people think I am handsome, others may believe that I look tired and ugly. Maybe for some i am an inspiration, and for others a pest... precisely because I am an inspiration.

So is faith required of me to know what I am like (unto you etc...) because I can never access the mental image you have of me? What are the limits of free faith, to presuppose and invent what I believe you see of me? Or, to be "me".

Sartre said the "other" fixed us in their gaze. If this true? Is self negotiated, or its it transcendent of opinion and choice?

 

[SkyWriting]

Ok I am human, but some buddhists see everyone as a buddha or bodishattva, some people think I am handsome, others may believe that I look tired and ugly. Maybe for some i am an inspiration, and for others a pest... precisely because I am an inspiration.

So is faith required of me to know what I am like (unto you etc...) because I can never access the mental image you have of me? What are the limits of free faith, to presuppose and invent what I believe you see of me? Or, to be "me".

Sartre said the "other" fixed us in their gaze. If this true? Is self negotiated, or its it transcendent of opinion and choice?

 

[GrowingSmaller]

I am personally in transition from being a face to being a tree, or a silver sphere floating in space. Some form of abstract impressionism style self concept.

 

[SkyWriting]

I am personally in transition from being a face to being a tree,

 

[GrowingSmaller]

No more like this -

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Does one have to be a body to be human? Hey there star....

 

[timewerx]

Yes being for others is very important.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

I htink a jewish theologian named Buber said that in I-thou relationship with God, man and philosophy became not monoloue but dialogue.

Whats it like to "be for god" in your faith?

 

[timewerx]

I don't think I've ever been for others in my life. Which is why I think being for others is very important.

Whether I've been for God, I cannot be the judge of that.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

 

[timewerx]

This is why I love my job as a clerk/secretary.

 

[third11]

I don't think I've ever been for others in my life. Which is why I think being for others is very important.

Whether I've been for God, I cannot be the judge of that.

Interesting.
Please elaborate further....

 

[timewerx]

Interesting.
Please elaborate further....

I missed a lot of things when I failed to be for others. Opportunities you may never have again.