GENIUS FORUMS

In my experience, people who boast that they are without a mission have lives that are full of missions... Yes this is true, I was only joking. My so-called introspective search could be labeled a mission if anything, or the simple fact of eating every time I'm hungry to keep this body healthy and ...

From my eyes it's quite logical - this most subjective sense 'I Am'. If I am honest with myself and strip all that is faith-based from my being (that is, as hypothetical examples: I am a Writer, I am a Worker, I am an American, I am a Socialist, I am a Christian, I am a Man, I am a Woman, I was born...

What's your name please?

My name is Christopher, a Swede without a mission ,)

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David "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world."

Yes, I figured you'd like this one ,)

Here Dennis, you'll get this one for free: The Results of Seeing Who You Really Are Douglas Harding (The following article is an excerpt from 'The Toolkit for Testing the Incredible Hypothesis' by D.E. Harding, published in 1972, now out of print.) THE MEDITATION The results of seeing What and Who o...

Well, I wouldn't say it's a trick to go back to the deepest, subjective, taste of oneself which is constantly shimmering behind the various mirages - which is what Harding is pointing to. I would say that it is the same pointing as Nisargadatta Maharaj does, described for example in the following qu...

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What you intrinsically are is Wisdom. This can be rested in and explored at all times.

When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what’s going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see. For instance: If you find your travel in the rush hour, to and...

Is that your poem?

Well in my view Jesus words were of a high poetic quality, at least from the Gospel of Thomas which is the only work I've read containing his words.

Yes, one thing that is Absolutely certain - the leaders of GF has an artistic sensibility equal to Mengele - but certainly the same scientific spirit. Keep it pumpin'!

That's a damn good poem

You claim it the moment you begin to speak authoritively on the subject of wisdom (which you like to do quite a lot). I've never said I was enlightened (which I equal to altitude) and I don't parallel it to speaking firmly about the subject of wisdom to that degree one feel comfortable doing so, wh...

Careful now, you are sliding into the realm of "disgust and condemnation from a pseudo-altitudinal viewpoint".....

I've never claimed the altitude, ol' chap.

So all that matters is ones own true honesty and developing a critical eye toward oneself

Yeah, definitely. I just talked about the same principle applying for external guidance due to the course the discussion has been taking.

Why would it matter how it's ever put forward? Only a context can demand a form and a response, not you. that is, I appreciate a teacher speaking from the place he's pointing to. If he is speaking about it not from that place then I don't mind it if he/she is honest about it. But when there is a fa...

Ryan: I agree, from a personal stand-point (with my interest being in self-inquiry) that there is no reason to abuse substances, or more accurately, there isn't any desire because there is an enjoyment in giving attention to whatever arises in consciousness, which substance-abuses would fog (from a...

Haha, not even close. The view that things are not separate is just as relative and empty as the view that they are separate. Haven't you even realized this yet? You are still missing the essential point by a million miles. Your "ultimate viewpoint" is an illusion. There is no ultimate vi...

A modern teacher (modern in the way of actually breathing and talking now) that is good is Mooji. First I was very cautious and doubting about him and shoved him off as just another fake Guru (cause his teachings are presented in the classic sat-sang style that has been bleached by the west) - but w...

How about freeloading or parasitism?

If that's a continuous identification-pattern then sure

You're conflating and mashing together two entirely different issues. While it is true that Reality is equal in all experiences, there is a world of difference between what Buddhas experience and what ordinary people experience, let alone drunks. Of course and this I have also brought up in many of...

You are the change in perception. You are not anything else, no abstract ideal at a deeper level. Man deludes himself into thinking that he is something other than his present state. I would still say You're not that. There is no space for a You in the present state. There is states - experiences -...

Rest assure - your Awareness stays untouched. Yes - of course Alcohol (or any drug for that part) changes the structure of the body creating a sensation of a pleasure, which in turn creates future sensation of pain and when over - as it is with pleasure/pain - desire arises for continuation which if...

For example, you say that thought is related to the five senses, but it can just as easily be extended far beyond them into unrelated areas. You say that it is tied to agreed-upon conventions, but it can also be completely divorced from them. You say that it is a tool for survival, but it can just ...

Eh, he seemed allrite a couple of year before his death and I bet he was indulging long before that.

1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aufuwMiKmE

A drinker he was. But I doubt that last comment deRopp quoted.
Well, anyway. Good stuff (link above).
Rougher, but still sharp in tounge.