GENIUS FORUMS

Cory wrote: So if anyone wants to post any explanations, do so with a good question in mind. Otherwise you’re doing us all a disservice. Sapius, perhaps you are aware of this and you are just making highly pedantic statements in order to test the intelligence of the rest of us. Hi! No, not at all....

Dhodges wrote: It's also important to note that the environment is not a stable, fixed element; it is constantly changing. Climates may change slowly, or suddenly. Predators may become more or less common, or may develop better eyesight, or background colors may change, favoring different camoflage....

I read and saw video recordings of most of U.G. Krishnamurti’s material since opening of a thread on him, and I have a different interpretation of his way of life. There is no doubt that he has gone deep into understanding what existence is all about, and to a great extant has also understood it, ...

Lenny, I take it that this post is addressed to me since it appears immediately below my post. Don't you agree that-- that which is possible in theory, is possible in practice? Sure, but it depends on how logically sound a theory is, or what does it actually mean. A person raised in very sane world ...

More specifically, what is the essence of the Universe? Or 'everything' or whatever you like to call it. For example, the 'essence' of an even number is a number that is divisible by 2 without a remainder. This is true for all even numbers in all instances in all times....etc Anyone know? I could t...

Thanks for clarifying it Leyla.

Rhett; To talk in respect to causality and reasoning, one could talk of each notion as being caused and conditioned by the preceeding notion(s). To talk in respect to causality and awareness, one could talk of each moment of awareness as being caused (by the All if you like). To talk in respect to a...

Rhett: R: In such cases an appearance occurs of "the future" along with the notion of it being a certain representation of a future event. S: Similarly there is a notion of past, agreed, but how do we arrive at such “notions” if not through cause and effect? And would calling it a “n...

According to Discovery Channel, during the early development of a human brain, more the verbal meaning and concepts are conveyed to a brain, the more it develops those electro chemical pathways since it has a high potentiality at a stage when the brain is also developing physically. But if those pat...

Rhett wrote: Hi Sapius. Your concept "certain certainty" is a tautology. Either something is certain, unfalsifiable, or it is uncertain, and open to error. There's really no other option. I think you're referring to the way we can reason likelihoods. Sure, that's possible, and highly valua...

There has been some fine discussion on emotions, but I feel for the sake of clarity it might need sub-categorizing so to speak. Diebert: So the problem with emotion seems to be not the fact they are arising but that they are still being triggered through our 'inward' existence and believe in the sel...

Pye wrote: Like Sapius, I have survived all sorts of caustic foods; but I am unable to suggest they have had no bearing on my state of mind. Not when I can do something else to achieve a different bearing. Neither do I suggest that they have absolutely no bearing on the state of mind; I basically ag...

Pye, Sapius is making a good point about the time, effort, expense, to eat well. Not necessarily. I’m not against a healthy diet at all. It would be foolish to do so. If one wants to travel a 100 miles to find a good diet, good for him, but if I were he, I would be preoccupied with my thoughts all...

I haven’t read all the posts so I don’t know who thinks along these lines and has said the same thing, but any ways. I believe “consciousness” arises in a thing when it can automatically, without any conceptual thoughts, react to its environment. That is, it is instinctually aware of the A=A...

Diebert, Well, nothing 'especially'. Any method to strengthen body or mind and/or loosen attachments to be able to do the major task at hand. All I’m saying is that ‘strengthening of the body and mind’ has no direct link to logically thinking of getting rid of ‘attachments’, or even thinki...

I'm a little hard of hearing. Did something bark in the opening post?

Lennyrizzo wrote:We can speak of someone having perfect understanding which comes from our perspective only, even while from his perspetive it is altogether transcended.

Sure.

Lenny, Note that it's possible for perfection to completely replace imperfection, however unlikely the possibility is. Considering that it would, don't you think that "perfection" itself would also disappear that very instant? One can say for the sake of communication and expressing unders...

Diebert, whilst rereading your original post, I noticed…. So far the topic was concentration and breath but other forms use purification of the body/mind complex by a serious change in diet, doing devotional and selfless work, or of course the 'gymnastic' variants. Is there any selfless work as su...

Diebert wrote: Sapius, you seem to have misunderstood the intent of my question. Let me repeat some of the context: Sorry about that Diebert, but it is still not quite clear to me what your intent is. David: Sicknesses, tape-loops, obsessions and justifications can, and often do, have a huge impact ...

Lenny wrote: Knowing the Truth is certainly essential but perfection only has meaning in the experience of full realization, at which point knowing becomes Being. Actually nothing applies, not even "perfect", when speaking of Reality, because perfect implies something imperfect, and neithe...

Well Kevin, if so many great people, including yourself, have said such profound things, then who am I to argue. I think then we better keep working on it. Right? :)

Diebert, How do some of the other (hatha, bhakti) yoga elements tie into this? So far the topic was concentration and breath but other forms use purification of the body/mind complex by a serious change in diet, doing devotional and selfless work, or of course the 'gymnastic' variants. If that reall...

Pye, I really don’t know what to say. In front of my face are no words, Sapius, no concepts. I promise you. I believe you, for the simple reason that what you are talking about is simple awareness. Even this can be seen as a “conceptual” one from the Natures point of view, meaning, not an inte...

Kevin wrote: There's a huge divide between full intellectual realization, full realization, and perfect, unterrupted realization. I have read the Stages of the way, as for above, yes, it is necessarily an uninterrupted one which is what I mean in "fully" realized. Otherwise, it is nothing....