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That may be so. But if a supposed enlightened person says, "I am not enlightened!" do you really still think they're enlightened? To be enlightened, wouldn't you have to know about it?

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sky What I believe in is reality. I have absolute faith in it! If enlightenment is part of reality, then I have absolute faith in enlightenment...but so far it seems that such a thing is not part of reality but just a part of fantasies of unrealistic people. Or perhaps they were realistic people, bu...

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kevin "God desires" can be a poetic way of saying, "if Nature determines", or "if cause and effect determine". poetic is good at least in my value system and someone said something that seemed to imply that fun might be acceptable also things are definitely looking up ;)

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scott

I don't know what enlightenment is, but I know what it isn't. That's how I can kind of say how it is.

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milli Well it sucks because it's a fascist totalitarian state. Pretty dragons at festivals be damned. true it is for now but as ryan says As I have stated, it is a unprecedented phenomenon because the people radically changed the economy quicker than the government evolved to support it. The governm...

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And what I find interesting that that they are emulating the western economic structure so quickly that they governing systems hasn't had time to catch up. It is odd that they are successfully creating a booming capitalist economy overnight without a stable democratic government to support it. it s...

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china is many cultures layered today's china contains the china of wise ancient china way more ancient than western of great wisdom it is in their dna so it could though unsettling be good philosophically some of the chinese sages of yore were not exactly second rate in the meantime it would be a r...

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And take little steps first!!! "Everybodywants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die." Little steps, like try going one (1) day without thinking an evil thought about another person. It's not so easy, is it? Be honest. It gets easy. Practice makes perfect. yes i know what you mean abou...

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fine i will phrase it in my own words i think enlightenment is part of the program of cause and effect that some people will always be inclined toward philosophy that it is natural to become a thinker i think that Bodhisattva's are concerned with every sentient being and that one way or another any...

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ok is there another word that is not finite making

i used the quote in spite of the word desire because something resonated true or very close to

or a repharsing

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sapius How does the way one has adopted to â€œhelpâ€ OTHERS really matter? Is it not a result of ones own conclusions? Wouldnâ€™t one have to come to a conclusion as to WHAT IS an â€œuglyâ€ state in the first palace? Say â€˜femininityâ€™ for example, which IS a very UGLY state to be in according t...

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enlightenment is inevitable

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steven Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters Thus, failing they had no cause for regret; succeeding, no cause for self-satisfaction. And thus they could scale heights without trembling, enter water without becoming wet, and go through fire without feeling hot. that's it the how has trepidation about such things

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better versed what

multi colors translate how

rip tide crashing why

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steven

What?

whatever

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all which isn't singing is mere talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf) gush to it as diety or devil -toss in sobs and reasons threats and smiles name it cruel fair or blessed evil- it is you (ne i)nobody else drive d...

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steven

"Hey, that was my what."

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so is your 'what' the low one from yesterday or the new revised high one of today

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cory The lowest mind is concerned only with knowing what in order to get what. A higher mind (but still a low mind) concernes itself more with knowing how, in order to get what. The highest mind concerns itself with knowing 'why' it wants to know 'how' in order to get 'what'. cory I suppose it is ma...

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@cory i have little trouble seeing the big picture and i could care less for your interpretation of the feminine mind anymore than i do anyone else's i had started to answer your questions but since you have already 'know' my mind why bother right and no i don't feel like adapting my style of writin...

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The lowest mind is concerned only with knowing what in order to get what. A higher mind (but still a low mind) concernes itself more with knowing how, in order to get what. The highest mind concerns itself with knowing 'why' it wants to know 'how' in order to get 'what'. that is what i mean i reali...

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err forgive me for pointing out the obvious but your thread title is 'why i know know no one is enlightened here' but you are here and you say you know you are enlightened what was the point of starting this thread what was your real motivation what did you expect the response to be what was your i...

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i wanted to thank cory for this thread - in ruminating on his message i thought of some of my real life projects and thought 'maybe if you spend more time thinking about 'why' you want to see these ideas manifest rather than how it might work out easier or better or both'

so thanks cory

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i learn best aurally some people visually some kinetically so if i showed up and listened that was sufficient in music theory and dance there is a lot of what appears rote repetition but it is not if you get what is supposed to be happening that in each repetition there is the opportunity to make i...

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one day i was speaking with my math professor dr. rameau 'pythagoras was a mathematician right' says i 'right' 'pythagoras was a musician right' 'right' pythagoras was a philosopher right' 'i don't know' he says how can you end up with a doctorate in anything without knowing pythagoras was a philos...

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in school whenever i had a prof who was not creative or flexible in allowing me to be creative there was conflict but those professors who let me add my own thinking to the agenda were delighted with the results in english lit the book said chaucer was influenced by dante so my prof let me do dante...

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