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- Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:26 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 107
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Kevin also wrote: But Truth is not so inviting. It destroys lives and families. Only those who love it with all their hearts can navigate its barriers. For whatever anecdotal edification this might provide, I am asked now and again to teach an adult-returning course called Philosophy and Women at th...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 57152
Excerpted from The Teaching of Buddha Published by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism) Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Two hundred and forty-fifth revised edition, 2001 4. Thus the spiritual struggle went on in the mind of the Prince until his only child, Rahula, was born when he was...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 57152
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:30 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 57152
prince writes: Are you sure it's not you who is doing the spinning? My words about meditation are also reflective of my thinking. So go ahead and compare. This thread seems to be about meditation, not about meditation. Two things here, prince. If you are subtle enough to make such a distinction, you...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:27 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 57152
Meditation
I sent NickOtani the address to this forum before I had refreshed myself of its contents -- so pardon the meditation question in the ABCs thread, when you are down here already discussing it. (My time has been limited to vertical reading into threads instead of horizontally across the board.) There ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:35 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
- Replies: 112
- Views: 56285
- Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
- Replies: 112
- Views: 56285
If you are enjoying surfing the wave then your wonderment will be in the wave, and you will remain a surfer pushed along by the wave. But as your wisdom increases the more you will identify with the wave, which is your larger self. In reality there is no surfer. The wonderment vanishes once you rea...
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
- Replies: 112
- Views: 56285
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:12 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
- Replies: 112
- Views: 56285
In most discussions about this it seems to boil down to what one defines as 'the one that wills'. Can there be a willing, free or not, without first determining who or what is supposed to be in control? Where are its boundaries? In a wide-seeing scheme that takes into account all cause-and-effect, ...
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:11 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
- Replies: 112
- Views: 56285
Society isn’t interested in truth, it’s only directive is it’s own advancement. That would be the causal truth of society then, yes? Thou shall not kill...Unless it’s sanctioned by the State. Thou shall not steal... Unless it best serves the nationalistic interest. And this too exists by th...
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:41 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
- Replies: 112
- Views: 56285
ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
I'll take Dan Rowden's suggestion and do these questions over here, David. I'm not sure what you are asking. What do you mean by "way of the pure determinist thinker"? Basic determinist thinking states the view that all things in the universe are governed by causal law ("determined by...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:32 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 113198
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:47 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 113198
DQ writes: . . . . they will still only end up as forgotten footnotes in the convoluted history of academia. Their names will be no more remembered than those medieval monks who slaved away anonymously in monastries arguing obscure theological points . . . . their work will seem just as archaic . . ...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 113198
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:25 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 113198
I can say some things about academic philosophy because I am around the people who do it all the time. I can tell you that not one of them worth their salt takes their own self-referential business of academic writing seriously, at least not in the dogged way Nick Otani does. And not seriously in th...