Good news from afar may bring you a welcome visitor.TheImmanent wrote:You're more fortunate than you suspect.RZoo wrote:WHAAAAAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. LA-LA-LA-LA!TheImmanent wrote:The negative is merely the absence of the positive.
That sounds like a happy delusion. ;-)
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- Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:40 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 33531
Re: Bliss
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:25 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 33531
Re: Bliss
WHAAAAAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. LA-LA-LA-LA!TheImmanent wrote:The negative is merely the absence of the positive.
That sounds like a happy delusion. ;-)
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
But wisdom is not about rejecting everything, it's about embracing the things found to be right and live and die for those. Wisdom is not about having no value and no identity (and as such ego-function). Just to clarify: nothing is objectively "right" or "wrong"; such value judgments are highly per...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:32 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
The doer who once did was never anything but an incorrect conclusion. He never actually did anything. There is no activity but awareness, i.e., enlightenment. Passive awareness is a contradiction. There is no awareness, either. All dualities are illusions, not just the ones you are biased against. ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:19 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 33531
Re: Bliss
Positive emotions consist in the expression of one's own nature. Negative emotions consists in the conception of some hindrance or opposition to the expression of one's own nature. This leads the ego to form the belief that it is the suffering that gives rise to pleasure and vice versa. For every t...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:27 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
Your life is worthless, is that enough for a plausible reason? Your life is worthless - so what? We need more, for example: A. Your life is worthless. B. You dislike your life being worthless. C. You view "enlightenment" as providing worth to life. Conclusion: You view pursuing enlightenment as a c...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:44 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
"Self" is defined as answer to the ultimate question of life. (What is life, why does it exist, what is absolute?) A great many human beings (perhaps all?) have been conscious of the ultimate question of life and of our lack of an answer. Some define the answer as "God", others as "Self", others as ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
Enlightenment is active (that by which everything is), limitless (cannot be captured by any form), wholesome (complete in itself), blissful (in perfect expression of its own infinite nature). Thank you for the metaphysical nonsense and stringing together of meaningless grunting sounds taken outside...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:50 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Movies
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25478
Re: Movies
Simply seeking clarification of your meaning. Since you’re saying that consumption of entertainment based on your qualifications for that entertainment correlates with enlightenment, then other consumables such as computers, automobiles, fashion, and so on are also likely indicators of enlightenmen...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:08 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Movies
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25478
Re: Movies
Not unless he communicated with God via email. Let's cut to the chase....
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:46 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Movies
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25478
Re: Movies
None, or ones that were specifically requested of him.
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Bliss
- Replies: 106
- Views: 33531
Re: Bliss
Buddhas Bliss was permanent. The bliss I have experienced is impermanent. Is it the same bliss, only the quality and quantity of it relative to the proximity to Enlightenment ? The quality of it is inversely proportionate to the proximity to "Enlightenment". The stronger the suffering, the stronger...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
- Replies: 181
- Views: 53357
Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario
So you 're saying being dead is some kind of feeling or emotion, like to be in love, to feel like a king or a chicken? But dying is not the same as being dead! Well, I thought this thread was about "after death" or about "being dead". In my view death only exists as suffering: for those fearing its...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:37 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Movies
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25478
Re: Movies
Ouch, you geniuses like mainstream American movies? :-\ Ouch stems from a bent view. Stems bent until slanted. It stems from a cultured view. I'd find it as difficult to conceive of a wise, intelligent, conscious or "genius" person who likes books like 50 shades of grey , as I find it difficult to ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
My understanding of enlightenment is something like: Living in conscious awareness of one's position as part of the world. It is in opposition to the view of oneself as a separate entity in the world. The goal of enlightenment is to fully renounce one's ego. One will no longer experience shallow emo...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:33 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
What are you saying? By dropping out, one can achieve the same effects of staying in?Bobo wrote:Because things appear in contrast to one another. By putting dropping out first one can achieve the effects of the opposite of it.
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
- Replies: 181
- Views: 53357
Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario
You have a point there. But I do believe it might be possible to understand the fuller meaning of death or how that occurs, generally, to the human mind. Do you know what it's like to be in love? I imagine you've experienced it first hand. Do you know what it's like to be a king? Maybe you've read ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:36 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Re: Why pursue enlightenment?
As a flip through any dictionary will reveal, human language is extremely vague. Perhaps one ought to attempt to create a well-defined subset of the English language sometime.... Until then, communication is more of an art than a science. The listener or reader has to attempt to understand the words...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:40 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Movies
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25478
Re: Movies
"Criterion Collection" releases many foreign films for American audiences. I'd recommend sticking with things earlier than 1995.
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16210
Why pursue enlightenment?
Enlightenment is for drop-outs, hardly for "geniuses". It's pointless to be passive, restrained, detached and shut off your emotions completely. It's equally hard to sublimate your emotions and to do something productive and meaningful with your life (to change the world). Why favor dropping out? To...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:44 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
- Replies: 181
- Views: 53357
Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario
There is no such thing as more logical or the most logical.
"After death" is an intangible concept. It's practically meaningless to discuss.
We could hypothesize that loss of consciousness occurs after death. This is about as good as a shot in the dark.
"After death" is an intangible concept. It's practically meaningless to discuss.
We could hypothesize that loss of consciousness occurs after death. This is about as good as a shot in the dark.
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:33 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Movies
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25478
Re: Movies
Ouch, you geniuses like mainstream American movies? :-\