What is involved in continuity............is a seemingly "meaningful gestalt"
associated with "what it is to be a human being."
The gestalt includes: survival of the individual and group, reproduction, memory.....
...thought, human relationships of self with/to others.
This gestalt "hangs together," ......
....each aspect .........implying the other.....
..... and it goes 'round and 'round.
There are many patterns that keep it going.
Aka, war, acquiring resources, notions of achievement, dealing with loss,
protection from loss, seeking an advantage for self or one's group.....
....whether materially or spiritually.
As long as continuity/survival/needs/wants/fears seems like a meaningful gestalt......
........ the meaning is the investment ........
....and with an investment everything is now deadly serious.
What drains the meaning from the gestalt?
Futility.
When the unsatisfactory nature of the gestalt, it's non-resolvability..
.. and ongoing creation of dilemmas (dramas).......is seen.
How can the gestalt ever be released as long as it is giving meaning.
As long as it's meaningful, attempts to transcend it are .....
...actually disguised attempts to continue....
.... for self to gain status as "a transcender."
And the pendulum swinging to the other side……
…..aka it's all meaningless…
…is the same game.
For “meaningless”……like nihilism….is a meaning…
……and is very enticing to keep the game going very well.
The seeing of the futility in a complete sense is actually .......
........is the simultaneous opening to seeing.
The seeing of the futility features in most traditions of spiritual thought....
..... whether the origination of such featurings was the Upanashidic Rishis...
..Buddha, Mahavir, Christian mystics or the Hassidic monks.
But this seeing is really not tradition-linked or tradition dependent.
The traditions indicate this futility, but the actual transcendence
of the gestalt, i.e. end-of-the-trance....
... can't be provided by tradition.
Why not?
What else is a tradition except a deeply rooted meaning.......
...and thus included in the futility of the gestalt of continuity.