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Good explanation of "Enlightenment" by Schopenhauer from 'The World as Will and Idea' awesome. next on my books-to-get list is bryan magee's overview of schopenhauer's life. well, unless i find the man himself's prose not overly dense for my picky mind. i understood that alright though :)...

Good explanation of "Enlightenment" by Schopenhauer from 'The World as Will and Idea' If, raised by the power of the mind, a man relinquishes the common way of looking at things, gives up tracing, under the guidance of the forms of the principle of sufficient reason, their relations to eac...

I've often wondered what would have happened if our species had evolved long tentacles out of where our eye sockets curently are, such that our eye-balls at the end of these tentacles towered above our heads (as in the manner of slugs). Our "sense of self" would no longer be inside the he...

Hi Menski. I agree that the identification and belief in the abstract idea of a personality or 'self' is the common reason for suffering and delusion, and though not easily discarded because of life-long conditioning I would say that to see through is not all too hard (surely different from each cas...

David, would you say that your philosophical/religious view is of a pantheistic or panentheistic nature, or neither?

Blair wrote:

Sphere70 wrote:thus speak the man of 1394 (!) slack-dicked GF-posts.

Ya lil' poodle.

Man up then, where you at?

(pm)

haha 'man up'?

I'm here.

The kid got lost in the well of ideas (like all people), these particular ones whipped him to violence. Other idea-structures will benefit from this, others won't. I don't believe it is a part of a major conspiracy. The self is a parasite though so everyone operating from these mechanics will bend t...

thus speak the man of 1394 (!) slack-dicked GF-posts.

Ya lil' poodle.

Telling the truth without having a dead-serious focus and goal of discovering a higher plane of living in a thoroughly insane and godless world is but another game, another addiction. Both goal and focus are activities with a future aim, that is it's an occupation with abstraction. In my view an En...

yeah, Paul Hedderman is great, good call.

great words from the unknown sage/mystic/philosopher Robert Adams (1928 - 1997): Boundless Space It is when you begin to feel in your heart that you are boundless space, that something begins to happen. As you feel yourself as boundless space, all your stuff begins to drop away. Yet you do not affir...

The mind is distracted from its natural state when it is unwittingly held captive to some particular conceptual framework and thus the cure involves knowing how to dissolve all conceptual frameworks, which can only be done by applying reason fearlessly. It is a process of clearing everything away u...

Yes!

Paintings by Gunnel Wåhlstrand http://images.arcadja.com/w%C3%A5hlstrand_gunnel-utan_titel~300~10129_20090427_0551_468.jpg http://www.artnews.org/files/0000051000/0000050948.jpg/Gunnel_W%C3%A5hlstrand.png http://old.likeyou.com/gfx/gunnel_wahlstrand_andrehn05.jpg ---- Paintings by Max Ernst http://...

I don't know why, but Blair reminds me of the little kid in Family Guy...

One of the reasons why I address (and emphasize) the issue of reasoning is because it is rarely brought up in the world. The world nearly always confines spirituality to the arts or to the generic religious industry, thereby divorcing it from reason and crippling it from the outset. I can't see how...

Zen Master Hakuin's a Paragraph from the Letter in Answer to an Old Nun of the Hokke [Nichiren] Sect The 25th day of the Eleventh Month of Enkyo 4 (C.E. 1747) This One Mind, derived from the two characters Myoho mentioned above, when spread out includes all the Dharma worlds of the ten directions, ...

This one is for you David (I know you think you thought yourself into his position ,-) ----- Caspar David Friedrich - The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Painting) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vtP4yMrIicI/TT-0u2cnNCI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/yo0v5lrQN1U/s1600/Friedrich--The+Wanderer+above+the+Mists+%25281817-18%2529...

Nature constantly throws up artistic masterpieces of such depth and beauty that one can only marvel at the arrogance and blindness of artists. And about the "philosophers" who constantly feel the need to reason about it and discuss it. I also suspect that your 'marvel of arrogance' comes ...

You're addicted to the highs. I understand that. Nothing compared to the continuous stream of serotonin you surf on when strokin' your homeboys of wisdom posted everywhere on your site. You're constantly posting pictures, videos, books, lectures, etc, which have elevated your mind. You and Zolwayz ...

Relating Quotes: Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the cone from which the tree must start." — Robert M. Pirsig Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts. — Schop...

Well, Schopenhauer talked about two ways to transcend the wheel of desire and to become without a self (ego-less to the extent possible) - one being through the aesthetics of nature or/and the fine arts (Visual Art being the type I'm focusing on in this post) - and the other through a complete ascet...

I know images is aimed, as a rule, to be avoided at this forum - but I think posting them directly on the page (instead through links) will benefit this post (a good rule should be bendable for its purpose). ----------- Schopenhauer "…aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful consists, to a large ex...

Schopenhauer-approved intermission:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxfW8lKI ... re=related

Hey Tomas

=) Yeah Belushi was on point - too bad his taste of poison was speedballs, that's a rough trip... May he Rest in Peace!