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- Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it be?
- Replies: 32
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Re: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it
Good and bad, right and wrong, here and there, i.e. all dualistic viewpoints are part and parcel to the experience of consciousness. In this sense, you're right to say that you can't get rid of one without getting rid of the other. Pessimism is a part of life because we are caused to value life, or...
- Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:22 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
- Replies: 181
- Views: 53357
Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario
102 contradicts 101, as something must exist to be awake.movingalways wrote:Enlightenment 101, nothing exists. Enlightenment 102, discussions are pointed because they keep consciousness awake.
Also, keeping consciousness awake (if it existed) would be pointless.
- Sat Jul 05, 2014 2:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
- Replies: 181
- Views: 53357
Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario
Nothing exists.
All discussions are pointless.
Wise men avoid discussion using short, witty, vague or meaningless phrases which always dodge the point and "challenge" their interlocutor.
*WISDOM HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.*
All discussions are pointless.
Wise men avoid discussion using short, witty, vague or meaningless phrases which always dodge the point and "challenge" their interlocutor.
*WISDOM HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.*
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:59 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 27363
Re: What is consciousness?
The word consciousness is not at risk of falling to the wayside from disuse. Redefining words to enhance clarity and meaning is one thing, but redefining them for the opposite effect is another. I guess that sort of thing passes for "wisdom" and "genius" in some circles where it's desirable to be as...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it be?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14555
Re: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it
Why would you be concerned about the slander against reality of the weak-willed? Reality certainly isn't. In fact, isn't it necessarily true that it's reality that makes the weak-willed weak, just as it is reality that makes the strong-willed. Will the "meek" destroy the Earth from an inability to ...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:47 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27504
Re: Shakespeare nailed it
An aspect of skillful means is to always speak truth when you do speak, without exception. “Brutal truth” is simply a description of presentation or acceptance, rather than a description of the nature of truth itself. Since love’s compassion rather than ego’s pity weakens the illusory boundary betw...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 10:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 27363
Re: What is consciousness?
To me, it is everything that exists. Consciousness is what we are and what everything around us is made of. We project ourselves as the world and experience being in a world. Consciousness is the ultimate and absolute, and to realize it you need to drop yourself. In other words, consciousness is an...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:36 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27504
Re: Shakespeare nailed it
With so many resources, surely your sincere enquiry has revealed this distinction. Difference Between Pity and Compassion http://www.differencebetween.net/science/nature/difference-between-pity-and-compassion/ 1.Pity is the feeling of sympathy or sharing in the suffering of another human being or a...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:53 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it be?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14555
Re: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it
Well, if you're Nietzschean (and therefore anti-metaphysics) at heart, it's not really a matter of pessimism and optimism so much as it is a matter of strong and weak will; strong will as creator of values, weak will as slave morality. Strong will as creator of values, weak will as slave morality. ...
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:59 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
I don't know, otherwise I wouldn't be in need of clarification.Glostik91 wrote:How do you know enlightenment needs to be clarified unless you know what enlightenment is?Unfortunately such conclusions, while witty, won't help clarify the nature of enlightenment.
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27504
Re: Shakespeare nailed it
Compassion is one of those things that seems to grow with age. If you are young I would wholeheartedly agree that you should prefer passion. It is natural. What is unnatural is to dislike compassion. I am on the young side so we'll see. Compassion is certainly typical in today's society due to the ...
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 27363
Re: What is consciousness?
To me, it is everything that exists. Consciousness is what we are and what everything around us is made of. We project ourselves as the world and experience being in a world. Consciousness is the ultimate and absolute, and to realize it you need to drop yourself. In other words, consciousness is an...
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:22 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27504
Re: Shakespeare nailed it
By well-being in the context of compassion, I am not painting a picture of grazing cattle or happy babies (cattle also endure inclement weather and starve if not fed and babies are more often unhappy than happy), I am putting forth compassion as a resting attitude of acceptance of all the aspects o...
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Enlightenment and morality
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2930
Re: Enlightenment and morality
I wouldn't define the value of truth above all as a disease, more of a world shattering, which does require a "putting back together again" or a healing, which does include, as you say, "irrational" elements and "delusions". Calling it a disease is a harsh metaphor, you're right; I just don't want ...
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:45 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
The story continues with Jesus raising his friend from the dead. Why would Jesus cry if he was just going to raise him from the dead anyway? Deciding if enlightenment is moral or not is already making enlightenment moral and not amoral. If enlightenment was amoral then there would be no deliberatio...
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:30 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it be?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14555
Re: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it
Interesting thoughts, thanks. The Big Project of the human race appears to be this, to hide its own inherent violence toward life, nature and essentially truth.... Humanity seems to be getting nearer to truth than ever. In the past we had crude religions, then mere morality, and now we have existent...
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27504
Re: Shakespeare nailed it
This forum is about wisdom of the infinite of which you are an intrinsic part as I am an intrinsic part. Why not stupidity of the infinite? Or wisdom of the finite? Or an extrinsic part of nothing? All of these phrases have the same amount of meaning . What benefit do we gain by choosing the halves...
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Enlightenment and morality
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2930
Re: Enlightenment and morality
Logic will bring you to discover the truth about the nature of reality, which is, to use your own term, the absence of a-thing-in-itself. So there you find yourself, thanks to logic, at meditative point zero. Nothing to grab hold of, no absolute (universal) value anywhere to be seen. So we're in ag...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
That's just my impression based on so-called enlightened figures and general connotation and associations I've found with the term (Buddha, Jesus, Buddhism, etc). If we accept your definition, then know that we can't distinguish an enlightened from a non-enlightened person (unless they choose to co...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:24 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Enlightenment and morality
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2930
Enlightenment and morality
I hope we can all agree that moral values are not truthful or logical or "absolute" and therefore that they are delusions. So... is enlightenment purely about "truth" and logic, ie. amoral? Or is it inherently linked with a specific morality? For example, it often seems to be linked with compassion ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 1:05 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spontaneity
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4202
Re: Spontaneity
The time when you will not have to reason anything? Probably in death, or if you receive a lobotomy. :-) Or in sahaja samadhi: http://www.srichinmoy.org/spirituality/concentration_meditation_contemplation/samadhi. The heart now reasons instead of the mind. If you don't need consciousness, just saw ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 1:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27504
Re: Shakespeare nailed it
My view would be more like that the "social" and the passions which fuel it are fundamentally erroneous from a philosophical perspective. Although that doesn't mean it cannot have function or effect, just that it won't be a conduct for truth finding. Actually one can find out it's in direct opposit...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 12:50 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27504
Re: Shakespeare nailed it
RZoo: In a world without pleasures, pains, thrills, joys and suffering, we would have no reason to do anything. It seems plausible that consciousness could not even exist in such a world. Does it not seem plausible that post-enlightened consciousness (one that is detached from pleasure and pain) ca...
- Sun Jun 29, 2014 3:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it be?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14555
If you could eliminate one thing from life what would it be?
Trick question - you can't eliminate anything without eliminating it all. Although that's a good question - would you happily eliminate it all? Let's discuss the human bias against life. Almost everyone seems to want to eliminate something, be it violence, lying, fallacies, poverty, or so on. Why is...
- Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:25 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
Not enlightenment, because I find it boring and wasteful of my talents. How did you come to realize that being passive, restrained, detached, and shut off from your emotions is enlightenment? Isn't enlightenment just realizing the truth? That's just my impression based on so-called enlightened figu...