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I dare not say you are wrong Is You say whatever you'd like! You are right, I can say what I like. What I meant was "I dont want to say 'no your wrong' because you may or may not be right - show me!" Now I have been thinking about this, and it takes me a while to think, but now I am back ...

There is no fundamental difference, only an apparent difference when viewed from within time. This is it. Whatever is happening. For example, a crow is squawking outside the window here. There is no hearer of the squawk, and no crow - just the apparent sound. I am not the Witness of the sound. Ther...

In this model Jehu you seem to suggest the true self is in need of improvement; do you view the true self as already perfect and not in need of improvement already God-realized and therefore not in need of enlightenment (as I do) or do you view the true self as higher than the ego but still able ot...

... while it is ultimately true that good is no better than evil, it is also a practical truth that good is better than evil. We need a dual perspective to correctly see both sides of the truth - the ultimate along side the practical. It's a tempting thought but would lead to the conclusion that wh...

I use the terms Nirvikapla to mean void in trance, no subject-ibject duality and no world. It is the more pure non-dual experience ... I use the terms Sahaja to mean knowing the void in the world - the state of the active sage; seeing the real within the physical (mundane). Hi, I can generally agre...

If a person is suffering from a mental disorder, and is labouring under the delusion that anyone wearing a hat is going to murder them, can we assert that such a person if free to chose their actions? Likewise, so long as person clings to the belief that they are identical with their ego-personalit...

This is non-duality experience... Nope. It is what is usually called a "causal" or "formless" absorption. This is because as long as there is a Witness, there is duality. This is very simple to understand; it is just illogical and nonsensical to assume a witness without a witnes...

Ataraxia wrote:Hmmm ,thought provoking post "Is", welcome to the forum. You too, "Little idiot", I quite enjoyed a number of your posts over on Dawkins.

Hi, and thanks.
I dont recognise the name from RDF, whats your user name over there?

Very nice post Is. I agree you are not the senses, as I said earlier, you are the witness or knower of the sense. Your thought experiment of removing the senses does not reduce the sense of I because it removes the senses not the awareness behind the senses - the witness self. You quote Nagarjuna, E...

I do know that impermanence and change are part of nature, infact, it all does nothing more than change. Paradoxically the only thing that doesnt change; is that all will change. As Buddha said humans are not beings but becomings. We live on the pin point of the moment, we experience time in series...

I don't remember seeing any rational arguments for Free-Will here or anywhere else. this is actually what I am talking about. DQ argues reasonably against free will, but then (IMO)contradicts himself by belief in spiritual path and improvement without a reasoned justification for why. I am attempti...

All this talk about consciousness being somehow independent of the brain springs out of our primal fear of death. It's that simple. Li, the sooner you accept that impermanance, chaos and change are part of nature, the sooner will you be able to experience true immortality. When the great Zen master...

I don't remember seeing any rational arguments for Free-Will here or anywhere else. this is actually what I am talking about. DQ argues reasonably against free will, but then (IMO)contradicts himself by belief in spiritual path and improvement without a reasoned justification for why. I am attempti...

Indeed, reason does tell us this as you say. However, does not reason also tell us there must not be total fatalism if there is to be a spiritual path? Because every spiritual path includes a long path of self improvement through self effort, if there is no free will then my effort is meaningless t...

The objections quoted by David Quinn and reiterated by Little Idiot to the conclusion of fatalism are based on an appeal to the consequences of belief and are thus flawed. If a bomb explodes in Paris destroying the Eiffel Tower, the consequences of a 'belief' in that reality, as opposed to a reject...

LI, The materialist view does have quite a bit of weight in this world. For instance: if you damage your brain in an accident, it can extinguish a significant degree of consciousness, and you can live in a hospital bed as a brain dead zombie. Or if you are born with down-syndrome or alcohol fetal s...

Religion does not provide solid enough answers for the deep thinkers. Religion leads beyond itself. Where it leads you, often, is another religion, but this will just repeat the cycle; you are not dis-satisfied by a religion, but by religion. I did Christianity, Taoism, Islam personally. You should ...

How do you define those three -isms? Welcome to the forum. Thanks for the welcome. Here is what I mean by the three -isms. I call 'materialism' (although some of the materialists prefer the term physicalism) any belief system based on the existance of matter independent of the mind. This lead to fa...

How old are you Little Idiot? You seem full of fire and vigour, but you do realize that you are for the most part preaching to the choir? I am in my early fourties, why do you ask? Do I seem full of youthfull over confidence? Fire and vigour? well, thanks, I think. Am I preaching? Sorry I will try ...

I feel that we need to be clear on this idea of loosing the ego. It has been taught in the ancient traditions, and misunderstood in the west. As pointed out by some posters here, to have no ego makes functioning in the world impossible. Although fanatical mystics see this as a goal, the Sage does no...

Reason tells us that there can arise no effect without a cause, for that which is able to arise without a cause must needs already have arisen; there being no cause why it should arise later rather than sooner. Further, this same argument holds for all possible times in the past, an thus it is logi...

the point is that a choice is neccesarily based on a cause , because in order to single one of the 30 ones out, there must be a mental process that eliminates the 29 others, even if you consciously try and mask your choice as 'the most random' that is a choice aswell. Just because the bits of paper...

I will try to encapsulate mentalism, an entire philosophy of the human situation into a few sentences. There is much more depth and subtle teaching, this is a crude overview, obviously. Mentalism is a form of idealism, I think of it as a completion of idealism. It teaches that all the cosmos is a pl...

Let me start by saying what a great piece of work the short book, available for free download, The Wisdom of the Infinite written by David Quinn is. As a newbie on the forum I offer my apology in advance if the following has already been discussed. EDIT TO ADD; I just came across the debate between ...

Better not claim to be a genius then ;)