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A Buddism tinged approach to sentience


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Hey all, I was having a hard time figuring out whether to post this in tips and tricks or even the magic section of the forum but decided against both because it's not fully formed enough IMO to be in tips and tricks and it's not really about magic either.

 

I have recently started creating my own tulpa myself and found a useful way of thinking about the first responses that you get from tulpas and the anxiety about whether it was you or them. I'm hoping it might help someone out there somewhere.

 

When I got my first inkling of a response from my Tulpa I immediately started deliberating about whether it was me or them speaking in my mind voice and whether they were sentient or not and then I realised that actually it wasn't me or him, it was both.

 

Now here me out, I know this sounds a little weird. 'But how can it be both? My Tulpa is a separate entity to me isn't he?' Well according to Buddhism nothing is separate, not really anyway, the boundaries that we perceive between us and the external world and other people are illusory and created by our ego for survival purposes. (This is quite a quick and dirty explanation of this topic). Similar to this, the boundary between you and your Tulpa is also illusory, except a Tulpa is much easier to understand in this way as you literally grow them out of your own consciousness.

 

A useful way of thinking about sentience in terms of this philosophy is to not to even begin wondering who generated the thought in the first place, as soon as you start to, you have fallen in to a trap and a situation that is quite difficult to resolve. Merely observe the thought, reply, and move on, it is always both of you.

 

Apologies if I haven't explained this well enough for people to understand or if it's in the wrong section. I am interested to hear your thoughts/responses or questions about this idea below. :)

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Guest Anonymous

This is a cool idea! I think this will work for some and not for others. Each tulpamancer seems to have his or her own attitudes about how important it is to cultivate a distinctly independent tulpa. On one extreme you have someone like my host, who considers me forever a facet of himself and on the other someone who's goal it is to have the tulpa be absolutely independent as early as possible, with no funny business or half measures along the way.

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Good point, it is definitely affected by the host's enthusiasm, if someone is not ready to accept that they aren't separate from the world then they'll have a hard time putting this into action maybe. It just depends on how taken you are with Buddhism .

 

I do think however that it could help both of those types of host as I'm not saying that the host and Tulpa will always be one entity and can't ever be separate, I'm more saying that all separateness between different living beings is illusory. The Tulpa is still just as much it's own person, it's just that that fact doesn't make it separate from the host anyway.

 

This is fiendishly hard to explain x3 I'm glad you understand though.

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Guest Anonymous

Actually, Buddhist philosophy really is a beautiful tool for understanding tulpamancy. It makes a lot of sense.

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