GENIUS FORUMS

Arktos, please comment on neo-traditionalism's supposed history of anti-semitism.

that's kind of what I was thinking too.

Basically can anything generate its own momentum without influence from without? This does have philosophical implications for me, but I'm really just looking for a straight answer. Does anything generate its own momentum?

David Quinn wrote:Exhaust your human consciousness and allow your inherent animal consciousness to come flooding in.

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If you're aligning yourself with truth, then you should be aligning yourself with what is inherent, not what is contrived.

wouldn't it be better if he just exhausted himself? kierkegaard said that truth only reveals itself in the gaps of our effort; the more effort you exert, the longer the gap is in between recovery. exert yourself to your limits, hit bottom. it won't make you more enlightened, but it might lay you out...

the teachings of the buddha are forbidden for many here, whether or not they realize it.

hehehe You know even among Muslims, there's an admonishment not read the Quran too much, lest one get bored of it. The point is, if I listen to a song I love over and over until I hate it, it's not because the song stopped being great. It's because I exhausted the emotional response of that particul...

are you suppressing these sins or investigating them?

I find him a bit generic and one-dimensional. His analysis of the ego isn't very confronting because it is kept largely theoretical and avoids addressing people's real-life attachments. This is just brazen ignorance. The paragraphs which address the lords of "form", "speech", an...

awesome!

This book is anything but standard; in fact, with regards to Buddhism, it's extremely unique in that it primarily addresses the concrete realities of samadhi without getting bogged down in moralism or philosophy. I have never seen an author address this subject matter in such precise terms.

DO THE FRIGGIN' MEDITATIONS!!1

Almost none of you here seems to have any "contact experience" with enlightenment (there being a few controversial exceptions.) I know some of you can cough up some trite conceptual knowledge about "the myth of inherent existence", but how many of you know of any actual meditatio...

...but alas, my inbox has no new messages. Is this a glitch or something?

you're a christian?

millipodium wrote:Postmodernism is an anti human attempt to remove the human narrative from the world.

man, you're weird.

Emma: I believe you when you say you're enlightened, but you're speaking in a language that evokes hostility and resistance in the people here. I think your approach is off; you want a cooperative effort, but no one here is going to cooperate with someone that isn't speaking a language that resonate...

I don't think he is insane at all.

I don't think I agree that nature is a neutral balance between man and God. I think nature is God (by nature, I mean the inherent tendency in the universe to become manifest), and God is the universe. I'm inclined to agree that negative attributes are a product of man, but the negativity is born fro...

did they delete his account? wtf?

let me just ask this obvious question so you can dispense with it right away: a wolf is not man-made, but it'll shred a rabbit apart for food -- how is this benign?

*watches intently*

There seems to be some fundamental tension here between the way one is and the way one would like to be (or wouldn't like to be, in many cases) that's largely the cause of this. To put it in freudian trinary: you have the super-ego (the judgement of the percieved other), which makes the ego (the per...

this thread is classic

go Tumblefish!!

spiritual_emergency: you seem to define "enlightenment" as basically oceanic consciousness. I don't think that's a very useful or sophisticated definition.

You might find this interview to be of some worth:

http://www.aroter.org/eng/teachings/bloodlust.htm