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- Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Music-Enlightenment
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1472
Think about this: From what everything rises, and to what everything aims? Silence. Emptiness. Before a piece of music begins, there is silence. The opus sings, manifests, silence CONTINUES always. Once the tension of the opus has reached its end, it disappears into silence once again. (Silence is e...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:39 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 39172
Re: Meditation
There are some serious misconceptions about meditation parked in this thread -- descriptions that I think come from people who have really only read about meditation or heard about it, have limited experience with it, perhaps even rejecting it out of hand. One can see the spin being put on it by th...
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:04 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
. Greetings Ary, I have responded to your last email, but considering you voiced the preference of not wanting to pursue these matters now, i express that i am unperturbed if you'd prefer not to respond, and do not do so. Greetings. I have not sent you any email. Other than replying the forum's pos...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:21 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
. To 'accept' what i have expressed is simply to affirm A=A, to affirm that what i am expressing to you is what i am expressing to you. What I meant was, when one doesn't accept something, one denies it or wants to make of it something different than what already is. I understand that their reasons...
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:42 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
It also makes me wonder what you conceive of spiritual practice to be. It's not a matter of sitting down and blocking the whole world out of your mind. God cannot be found down that little hole. You have to learn how to focus on God in all times, places and situations. No matter what you are doing ...
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:32 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
That's an awfully harsh statement to make. So you don't think there is much value to this forum, after all? No offense intended, but I think you interpreted it wrong. My saying that didn't imply that I think there is not much value to this forum. In fact, I think there is Great value to this forum....
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:54 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
Rhett Hamilton, I see you are still misunderstanding me. You continue to interpret in the wrong way what I have expressed. Nevertheless I understand you and accept what you express, I have no conflict with that. To accept is not the same as to agree. The fact that you think: I see no reason to hang-...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:15 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
. That's because you're not really trying for enlightenment yet. Not with great intensity and constantly (which is the requirement). It's not possible for someone in a loving relationship to become enlightened without the love dropping-off or fading away. Enlightenment is so thoroughly difficult, t...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:50 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I Exist
- Replies: 96
- Views: 43036
If one holds that "The 'I' is constantly present etc." is "an expression of the ego's desire for permanency", then one inescapably holds the ego permanent. (I can call this "the trap of relativity".) Now I understand what you say, but I still don't get it. You mean that what makes the ego be perman...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:25 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
Are you saying there is no value in running this forum? No. I meant I felt really dissapointed when I read something about that (that an enlightened being would exchange thoughts, and so on, with others -I can't imagine Maharshi "exchanging" thoughts with Nisargadatta, or with J.Krishnamurti for ex...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:06 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I Exist
- Replies: 96
- Views: 43036
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:03 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
I find the letters that David and Kevin exchanged, to be very good. Haven't read much, but I think it is a very good thing to have them in the web. http://members.optushome.com.au/davidquinn/Letters01.htm Prince, if you are not sure about what I wrote about before, the gradual process of gaining con...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:02 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
You just sound very conflicted. Nothing you express has any merit or validity until you decide which path you are going to choose. Then you should read again, but with more attention. I am not very conflicted, and have already chosen my path. Things usually change gradually, and many times when thi...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:31 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
. I suggest it's more your hope that you can be in a relationship without being burdened than your thinking on the matter. To become enlightened is no small feat. It requires all that one has, to be given. Not to someone else of course. Well, it is actually the opposite. I am not burdened, actually...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
. I find that people often acquire a pet thinking that it is a win-win. They think of the stimulation they will be awarded as a win, as well as the comfort of having control of it. Sure there will be hassles and a cost, but in the overall scheme of things they see a win-win. But the reality of it r...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:52 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
The problem is, getting involved with a woman is a far bigger step than simply listening to music or eating nice food. Not only does it connect to things which lie deep within the male ego, but it usually comes with a whole bunch of associated problems. For example, most women like to live in nice ...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:16 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
Ary, it sounds like you do, “… bet (your) security (and) happiness on her.†Most people use others for exactly the same reasons. You didn't get what I was saying. I also love music, my probably "greatest" passion. I also enjoy movies, food, etc. That doesn't mean I am thinking about those thi...
- Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:44 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
How many men have been fooled by that little dream, I wonder? At least 75% of the male population in history, one would have to think. - Including you? Having family doesn't prevent one from Enlightenment. Nisargadatta had a family and he was certainly Enlightened to me. Most of the others no, that...
- Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:28 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
Re: Mundane Relationships
I stopped being affected by the relationship. Maybe that's why it ended. There's just not much point to a relationship if you are indifferent to it. In my case I'm certainly not indifferent, I'm highly feminine (in the sense of loving, romantic love, etc.). But I don't bet my security or happiness ...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:10 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I Exist
- Replies: 96
- Views: 43036
The idea that "nothing existed before consciousness and appearances" is also an appearance and should be dismissed as well. It is just as false to imagine this as it is to imagine there was existence before the arisal of consciousness. I see your point. So, (if my memory is somewhat fresh) to you R...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:42 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I Exist
- Replies: 96
- Views: 43036
Normally, consciousness is the imaginary stage upon and within which awareness occurs. Imaginary? It would be like selflessness, it seems imaginary to that one who is selfish and think that's all there is. The thing about Reality, is that for those of us who only see appearences, it's hard to imagi...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:35 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I Exist
- Replies: 96
- Views: 43036
In my view, the only thing that needs to be done is thinking. Anything else follows from that. Conversely, certain things follow from not thinking, also. Like more not-thinking. If this is, in fact, what you mean -- then I agree with you. Well, I have to say I disagree. In my view, the only thing t...
- Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:54 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I Exist
- Replies: 96
- Views: 43036
That is a problem. How are you going to know when you have come across a person who has experienced it? What, in their explanation, will you look for? We are only discussing here. It isn't like these words are gonna make some experience happen, one is to live it by oneself. Unless it is: means and ...
- Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:44 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: My Mundane Life
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21635
Re: Mundanity
The possibility that, even though you know full well the bullshit you would be getting yourself into -- "it will be better/different this time" -- you might still be willing to do it. That is why I am discussing it here. I think exposure is a very important word in life. Exposure to things means on...
- Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:58 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I Exist
- Replies: 96
- Views: 43036
You mean the phenomenon of being awake (state of consciousness identified with when the body is not asleep) and conscious of the environment including the sleeping body? That I have experienced a few times. It's even better than moving an architrave. It's entirely different to being asleep and appe...