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by RZoo
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
Views: 14555

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...
by RZoo
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

movingalways wrote:Enlightenment 101, nothing exists. Enlightenment 102, discussions are pointed because they keep consciousness awake.
102 contradicts 101, as something must exist to be awake.

Also, keeping consciousness awake (if it existed) would be pointless.
by RZoo
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.*
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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 ...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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. ...
by RZoo
Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

Glostik91 wrote:
Unfortunately such conclusions, while witty, won't help clarify the nature of enlightenment.
How do you know enlightenment needs to be clarified unless you know what enlightenment is?
I don't know, otherwise I wouldn't be in need of clarification.
by RZoo
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 ...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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 ...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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 ...
by RZoo
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 ...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...
by RZoo
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...