Originally posted by karoly aczel
I dont want to live in this body forever/The "I' is a hinderance to my 'awakening'.
You ARE your body. What you 'feel' as living is merely a group of constituent things that will all end. There is no 'my' awakening.
"Shariputra, all dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced. Not destroyed, not defiled, not pure, and they neither increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or dharmas; no field of the eyes, up to and including no field of mind-consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, no way, and no understanding and no attaining." - Heart Sutra