fragments, 6/23/03, 9:43 p.m.

[novapsyche]

This is something I mentioned to F on the phone after I'd seen The Matrix Reloaded:

"Is love the genesis of choice?"

I think that's the ultimate question distilled from the movie. And it's a worthy question. Can love trump the mechanisms of fate? In my mystical experience, I would have to say yes. While I can never know for certain, I feel that the soul trumps death because of its love, its yearning, for God.

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[myelectricsheep.livejournal.com]

One Buddhist POV: Each of a person's actions creates a karmic seed, which later reaches fruition. This goes on and on forever. The result is that the person is tossed on a sea of events which result from past actions. You could call this "fate." However, this whole system only functions when there is a separate person to act, and a separate person for the results of past actions to attach to or flow with.

However, in what might be called the deepest love (which may not be love as it's often described, at all), which is the union of emptiness and compassion, all boundaries are recognized as insubstantial. The self/other distinction dissolves, and karma becomes transparent. If fate is the result of karma, fate becomes malleable or melts away entirely. Fate becomes another way, instead of an inevitability. The source of its solidity was the separation of self and other. This goes, and fate goes with it.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. This has helped me immensely.