GENIUS FORUMS

Ryan , sam: What's it to you what people desire? If you want to be homeless, go ahead. But don't imply others have a problem because they don't. Ryan: Because other people’s desires create the world that we live in. And so the wiser and more minimal people’s desires, the less hellish the society wi...

Ryan , sam: It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of desire. No, most people have no desire to be homeless. Ryan: And most people also desire to commit themselves to a life of overtime and toil to pay for an oversized home and luxuries that they don’t need. What's it to you what people d...

Ryan , sam: If it were actually preferable, more people would do it. Working isn't all bad, some people even enjoy it. Ryan: Most people don't have the emotional intelligence to desire this sort of thing. It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of desire. No, most people have no desire to ...

Diebert , sam: I think your sarcasm is unwarranted here. Firstly, it wasn't mikiel who sued. Diebert: I wasn't being sarcastic at all. This discussion is about finding ways to escape the slavery of undesired jobs and related sticking to a location and Mikiel tells how he got helped by money coming ...

Diebert , mikiel : So along about '98, a guy in a wheelchair shows up at one of my little meditation circles with dialogue after. He too had experienced a total breakthrough from ego into selflessness, and he knew firsthand that I was speaking as a local manifestation of cosmic consciousness. He ha...

BM , BM: Celibacy is necessary to reach enlightenment. sam: I don't think so. Enlightenment is about who you are, not whether you are celibate or not. BM: Do you think that detachment is necessary for enlightenment? Of course but detachment is an attitude, not an action. BM: The severe differences ...

Amanda , Of course others have their own will to decide what they will, but the point I was making is that most seem intent on pulling another down if their understanding is not the same as their own. Mockery abounds and reverberates off the walls here in cyberspace, there has been no other place l...

But if you diversify between high yield trusts, with high yield stocks, you could average about 10% annually ... You can always try. A home is simply a place to defecate, urinate, eat and sleep. You can do that anywhere. So do it on the street, tell me how you like it. Finding a route that isn't to...

You basically invest the money into a diversified portfolio of strong income trusts that yield a steady reliable monthly dividend of about 10% annually. Good luck getting 10%. 5% is more likely. Moreover, $20 000 will yield about $2000 per year or $166/month or $5.55/day. So basically, you're homel...

It IS my experience here that none do learn from others... Some do, some don't. Nothing unusual there. ... they are too busy wrapped up in saying what is right or wrong, egos puffed i recall a phrase here ... Is there attachment here? Sure. ... truth IS everyone is right to their own personal under...

BM , Celibacy is necessary to reach enlightenment. I don't think so. Enlightenment is about who you are, not whether you are celibate or not. The severe differences between one's current attached state and that of absolute freedom will bring about contempt, disgust and all manners of revulsion with...

Ryan , sam: Would you say someone who gives up sex and agonizes over it has actually given up anything? On the other hand, without attachment, where is the harm in the action? Ryan: No they haven’t given up anything, but on the other hand, you can easily justify continuing the pursuing of a karma c...

Ryan , sam: I'm surprised, Ryan has actually given advice I would agree with. Nothing needs changing where there is no motivation to change. Real change is a product of insight, not regimentation Ryan: Yeah, but sometimes regimentation and renunciation have their place, there are many paths to the ...

Ryan, sam: The middle path is not about renunciation. Ryan: Renunciation is inevitable because if one extinguishes the emotional motivations for enjoying certain vices, then they no longer have a hold over the mind. And it no longer makes sense to pursue them at all. But that isn't renunciation, it ...

Don’t try to do anything, Keep doing what you are caused to do, and perhaps eventually pursuing women will eventually feel boring, tedious, a chore, a waste of energy, and you no longer derive the same emotional satisfaction from it … I'm surprised, Ryan has actually given advice I would agree with...

Ryan, sam: are you [still] on that anti-sex kick? Is it really your position that no one should have sex? Ryan: It isn’t a kick Sam, it is one of the major pillars of enlighenement, a man is not complete until he has totally faced death, until he has totally faced his fear of loneliness, totally fac...

Ryan Rudolph wrote:If man and woman exist as friends, then rational discourse should be their communication, rather than romantic sentiment and an emotional addiction to sexual intercourse.

Ryan, are you see on that anti-sex kick? Is it really your position that no one should have sex?

chikoka,

I'm sorry to hear about your travails. It's a tragedy what's happened to your country (I visited Zimbabwe in 1981, it was quite a nice place then). I hope you are able to find a way out. Good luck to you.

chikoka,

Wow, where have you been? I still remember the conversation we had on TPG. Seems you only come by every three years!

Tell us more about Zimbabwe. How do you manage to live when your money becomes worthless overnight? Do you ever think of leaving?

maestro , sam: Without showing how a belief in causality is reflected in choices and actions that are distinct from a belief in free will, it is a belief without impact or consequence. maestro: If everything is already done and you are merely an artifact, then there should remain no conflict no reg...

Without showing how a belief in causality is reflected in choices and actions that are distinct from a belief in free will, it is a belief without impact or consequence.

mikiel , I for one have taken an interest in your interactions with some posters here. Does someone who has had an awakening get down and dirty with the unwashed crowd? Apparently so, which seemed a bit strange to me. Not that I didn't "get" your persona. How does one deal with rank egoti...

Kevin,

God is the doer of all things, both good and evil.

I see mikiel already took you to school on this. Enough said.

Kevin , I think you are incapable of even basic logic, so this discussion cannot proceed. The idea of God doing all things, but doing all different things, is a very simple one, but you are unable to grasp it. Let's see. You bring up God to justify your actions. I remind you that God can be used to...

sam: If it's all God, the beliefs are equivalent. Kevin: God does different things, and different things are different. You are trying to have it both ways. You want to appeal to God to justify your actions but when I say all actions are from God, you backpedal and say God does different things. Ge...