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by cassiopeiae
Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:00 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Is the brain necessary?
Replies: 3
Views: 8634

Re: Is the brain necessary?

If I can find the article, there were additional studies carried out by other scientists suggesting the same results, only the apparent portion of the brain that was actually in existence was the brainstem.
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:04 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Is the brain necessary?
Replies: 3
Views: 8634

Is the brain necessary?

<t>I was listening to a lecture and there was a mention of Neurologist John Lorber and his discovery of humans functioning in society, many of which have high IQs, but virtually no brain...<br/> <br/> Article:<br/> <br/> Is the Brain Really Necessary?<br/> <br/> (Or What and Where Is Consciousness)<...
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:46 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Shurangama Sutra
Replies: 20
Views: 22251

Re: Shurangama Sutra

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: The ten stages of the bodhisattva are when everything is perfected. All major attachments are left behind by the first bodhisattva stage. By the time of the 7th bodhisattva stage, all six paramitas have been perfected, and there is only minor cleaning up to do.<hr><br/> <br...
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:29 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Shurangama Sutra
Replies: 20
Views: 22251

Re: Shurangama Sutra

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: But what is this almost perfect person lacking that prevents them from being a perfect Buddha? It is nothing major. It is not as though a light were all of a sudden turned on and they crossed-over to the other side. Such a person is already on the other side. They are not i...
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:22 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Shurangama Sutra
Replies: 20
Views: 22251

Re: Shurangama Sutra

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: It depends what you mean by "knowing". Someone who is almost a perfect Buddha knows just as much as does the Buddha - they could give the very same teachings, for example - but they still have the very slightest hint of "fog", so to speak, and so do not have the 100% perfec...
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:27 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Shurangama Sutra
Replies: 20
Views: 22251

Re: ---

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>voce: Where in this sutra does it describe any difference between 'enlightened' and 'Perfected'? Or any sutra?<hr><br/> <br/> There is commentary on it, but also described are the various degrees prior to the "Perfected" state, or Buddha. As for the actual sutra, I cannot say for ...
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:53 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Shurangama Sutra
Replies: 20
Views: 22251

Re: Shurangama Sutra

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: There is a distinction to be made between an enlightened person and a Buddha. The enlightened person knows everything to do with Truth, but a Buddha is a perfectedenlightened person, who has no lingering, subtle habits. [Incidentally, there may have never existed such a per...
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:55 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Shurangama Sutra
Replies: 20
Views: 22251

Re: Shurangama Sutra

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr> The Buddha is the only one who has nothing left to learn.<br/> -Shurangama Sutra, Individuals Able to Receive the Teaching<hr><br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>jimhaz: Why would a supposedly enlightened person bother reading such works? <br/> In what way would it improve on their abili...
by cassiopeiae
Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:42 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Shurangama Sutra
Replies: 20
Views: 22251

Re: Shurangama Sutra

<t>Thanks for the link...<br/> <br/> This is a big undertaking...2400 pages, and so far, it seems like an interesting topic (er...insights, not sure of the right word) to discuss. Did you have something in particular you would like to start with? possibly with sections, I see they are outlined for r...
by cassiopeiae
Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:17 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Bhagavad Gita
Replies: 20
Views: 27178

Re: Bhagavad Gita

<t>Yes, as voce said, the reason would be nice...<br/> <br/> I was recommended this read by a Hindu friend of mine, who is also a chemist...he finds it hard to believe in any religion due to his love of science. Anyway, I found a lot of insight in this book, none of which had anything to do with NOT...
by cassiopeiae
Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:23 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Why? Or: Why not?
Replies: 13
Views: 17375

Re: ----

By the way, as I log in through EZboard, the main page of Genius forum has the menu at the top...

My Control Center | Logout | Show new only | Mark ALL forums read | Search | Help

Search worked for me......
by cassiopeiae
Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:46 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"
Replies: 20
Views: 23654

Re: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"

I can understand the person accepting the label society has put on him, but your "division" is a bunch of bologna.
by cassiopeiae
Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:18 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"
Replies: 20
Views: 23654

Re: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"

<t>As you have labeled the "Schizotypoid" using various criteria, the "Schizoid" is also labeled through certain criteria...now are you arguing that the "Schizoid" is merely labeled by the average person, though as you see in the relating thread, the schizoid admitting these criteria fit in his/her ...
by cassiopeiae
Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:01 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"
Replies: 20
Views: 23654

Re: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"

Are you saying the things he mentioned above are not to be taken seriously?
by cassiopeiae
Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:53 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"
Replies: 20
Views: 23654

Re: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"

<t>I agree for the most part, but as the "Schizotypoids" is extreme in vanity, materialism, egotism, the "Schizoid" is extreme in other areas, which also includes egotism, in such scenarios as interacting with society, creating the effect of hermitage and complete alienation...<br/> <br/> Just curio...
by cassiopeiae
Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:38 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"
Replies: 20
Views: 23654

Re: "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"

So what is the medium between "Schiziod Personality Disorder" and "Schizotypoid Personality Disorder"? They are both extremes, wouldn't it make sense that both would be unintelligent ways of living?
by cassiopeiae
Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:50 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154284

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

Isn't Buddhism based primarily on reason? That is my understanding anyway...

Edit: as is any other philosophy, even the words Jesus spoke are typically based on reason... Edited by: cassiopeiae at: 2/1/04 2:31 am
by cassiopeiae
Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:16 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154284

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

oooh a duel...*cough*, I mean, debate...
by cassiopeiae
Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:32 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: The compatibility of free will and determinism.
Replies: 20
Views: 21259

Re: The compatibility of free will and determinism.

Exactly, but in regards to what seurgaz said...attachments have nothing to do with the physical composition of anything, like genetics or the like...
by cassiopeiae
Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:16 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The compatibility of free will and determinism.
Replies: 20
Views: 21259

Re: The compatibility of free will and determinism.

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Verily, perchance I have taken from you an hundred definitions and the<br/> dearest playthings of your virtue; and now are ye wroth with me as children<br/> are. They played on the seashore - then came a wave and swept all their toys<br/> away into the deep: now they weep.<br/> <b...
by cassiopeiae
Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:59 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The compatibility of free will and determinism.
Replies: 20
Views: 21259

Re: The compatibility of free will and determinism.

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>KSolway: Free will is one of those illusions we cannot escape, like the illusion of "self" (in fact, free will is dependent on the illusion of self), however we can stop being taken-in by the illusion, at the same time as continuing to use it for communicating with ourselves and o...
by cassiopeiae
Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:35 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The compatibility of free will and determinism.
Replies: 20
Views: 21259

Re: The compatibility of free will and determinism.

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>KSolway: What we call "free will" is our perception that we are, to some degree, in control of what we are doing. And it is based on our lack of ability to predict the future. That is, even though the future is necessarily fully predetermined by the present moment, we ourselves do...
by cassiopeiae
Tue Nov 04, 2003 8:54 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Prerequisites for Enlightenment
Replies: 19
Views: 19022

Re: Points of pedantry?

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Dave: “Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.”<br/> Lao Tzu.<br/> <br/> He was supposed to be enlightened wasn't he.<br/> <br/> You've got to guess he was talking about the centre of the wheel, and the rest of it. <br/> <br/> Rhett...
by cassiopeiae
Sun Nov 02, 2003 6:42 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Human Connections
Replies: 20
Views: 20891

Re: Human Connections

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Suffering and pain are a result of love, and nothing else. When you feel suffering and pain, it is because you don't have the thing you love.<hr><br/> <br/> I agree that suffering and pain can be the result of love, but are not always. Suffering and pain is attributed to many more...