GENIUS FORUMS

Desiring it obliquely isn't wise either.

On the contrary, it is a technique that works well.

I'm gone to New York for the weekend, back sunday or monday.

Jehu, Indeed, for how can the ears of a dream-persona be the true cause of its perceiving sounds, when the dream-persona itself an illusion; if fact, how can a dream-persona be said to be capable of perception at all? Nevertheless, it certainly appears that way, and so we must pay close attention to...

I have considered that the entire manifest universe might actually BE a brain, you know whose.

Jehu, Does the dream-persona not rely upon its dream-eyes in order to see? I really don't know! It's a strange question. To the dreamer, it seems so. And I had never really analyzed a dream quite this way. But once you think about it, you can ask that same question in many ways. Do the muscles of th...

Jehu, so too does consciousness arise as a result of the coming together of a sense organ and its object. Consciousness therefore, partakes of only a relative existence, and so cannot be identical with awareness, which partakes of an absolute existence. Just as the consciousness of the dream-persona...

Jehu, I am not clear on why we posit a separate awareness from consciousness, because of the fact that we don't hear someone speak if our awareness (attention) is elsewhere. It is difficult to say, for this is a non-theistic system. However, I suppose the Principle of Interdependent Complementarity ...

Jehu, The reason that I differentiate between consciousness and awareness is that consciousness arises and ceases, and is compound in its essential nature, while awareness is permanent and indivisible. The term “consciousness” encompasses six kinds of consciousness, one for each of the physical sens...

Maybe the globe is warming because Aslan is coming.

Can't figure out why warming this cold planet is a bad thing.

Jehu, Not at all, for they have brought us to the very limit of knowledge, and it is now for us to make the experiential leap to that which lies beyond knowledge. Remember, knowledge is the inferior (bounded) aspect of reality, and so is not capable of encompassing the superior (unbounded) aspect – ...

Jehu, The laws of thought will not permit us to say that Being is one, many, both or neither. And are not the laws of thought helpless here? When you speak of Being like this, I think of existence, and I have agreed that there is no nonexistence. But the Being I am interested in is awareness or cons...

Jehu, There is a fundamental problem with the notion of separateness, and it goes like this: if two things are truly separate then they cannot be related, for to be related is to be connected. For this reason, if we assert that there are two separate things, then there must be a third thing which ac...

Jehu, Second, we cannot say that it is many, for as many as we say that it is there must always be one more which acts to separate the many- and so we are left with an infinite regression. This I did not understand. The possible number is infinite, but the actual number must be finite. Third, we can...

If Ahmadinejad said that, I am impressed.

Jehu, First, I must reiterate that the fragment of awareness (soul) is not contained by any body, for it partakes of an absolute existence, and so is unbounded. Just as the cognizant awareness which underlies the sense perceptions of the dream-persona is not contained by the dream-body – though it a...

Jehu, If it is true, then should not one be able to encounter it in all people? Well, it is very difficult for me to say in what way I have encountered it. How does one get insight and in what way does it remain subjective? I ponder things. I would say that I "see" with another faculty of ...

So then, Hodges, you must find the following phrase useless:

"The Tao which can be named is not the real Tao."

Jehu, While insight is the essence of Wisdom, it is not realization; realization is not an intellectual endeavor, but an experiential one. Suppose I have the insight that the core of all people is pure and incorruptible. If that is a subjective insight, then what would its corollary experience consi...

Jehu, It is like when you tell a child not to touch the stove because it is hot. Until the child actually touches the stove, heat is merely a concept; however, once they have touched the stove, heat becomes something more than just an idea. But what about the insights that one has come to on one's o...

Jehu, Now, what do you mean about understanding truth conceptually as opposed to 'realizing' it? An enlightened being is still distinguishable from another sentient being (enlightened or otherwise), for both have an essential aspect to their being as well as an existential aspect. Wherein lies this ...

Jehu, Saying that it is impossible to imagine the lack of a subjective world - Ok - but how are we to talk about it? Yes, of course! You see, a conceptual understanding is simply a form of subjective knowledge, and although that knowledge may be in full accordance with the truth (what is real), it r...

Paco,

I believe the poster before me had asked what differentiates one thing from another, and I was explaining how it is that all of reality is one thing, while at the same time there are the different things and beings. It is traditional advaita I guess, but pretty marvelous to actually see it.

Jehu, Why would you think that? The subjective world is a world of our own imagining, and is not necessarily in accord with the actual world. It is because we each live in our own imaginary world that there is so much conflict, for each of us sees the world from our own personal perspective, filtere...

Jehu, Awakening to one’s true nature does not put an end to the objective world, but only to the subjective world. I'm trying to envision it, but I am not sure living without a subjective world is compatible with human life. Though I am well educated in Buddhist metaphysics, I do not identify (my se...

Jehu, Certainly not, for Being is what we are. It is not the cessation of living beings that brings an end to suffering, it is the cessation ignorance; which brings with it the dissolution of the ego-personality – that imaginary sufferer of our own making. It is not sad, it is simply the way it must...