GENIUS FORUMS

After one's tree-falling-and-making-no-sound-without-an-observer-ah-ha-moment, there's the tree, the sound, the world, etc. It's disingenuous to posit an observer if there's nothing to observe. It's meaningless to name an "observer" at all, The falling tree and the sound it makes has to c...

No, I am not a student of any buddha, movingalways. I see one, I run like hell . . . . Dennis, et al: nothing exists independent of an observer. After one's tree-falling-and-making-no-sound-without-an-observer-ah-ha-moment, there's the tree, the sound, the world, etc. It's disingenuous to posit an ...

how much evidence would you need to be proven that someone that looks like a normal human is not

It's the fact they look like a normal human that spoils it.

Right on. Called me out and i appreciate you're quick honest assessment. Honesty within ones self... without that i may as well be selling snake oil.. I'm gonna assume you're remarking upon two different instances.. One of which i said a salesman of purpose.. I thought that may attract attention.. ...

I believe you are a walking contradiction, honesty within one self is imperative; without that you might as well be selling snake oil.

The claim that causality can emerge from nothing seems to rely on a conception of objective time. Withouime there can be no emergence of phenomena. For change to exist, time must exist . You're left then with causality emerging from something other than nothing, because true nothing could have no p...

Eric wrote:All mathematics can be expressed in binary. A perspectiveless being and nothingness alone produce all mathematics.

But this is perspective, nothingness relies on being. So all you've reduced math to is a another relationship. True nothing is an impossibility because it's always relational.

I agree this thread is great, even though I find all the science challenging, I agree with Diebert we are our own audience and for myself I've gotten more clarity.

Our minds do not cause reality, it is only the nature of our minds that they view Being incompletely Our Minds do not cause reality, but are irretrievably mixed up in it. Yes perspective is limited, distance, space and time are all perspectives, and ultimately don't exist but rather are a conventio...

You exist both undifferentiated from and completely disconnected from the remainder of Being. disconnected from = separation; ego, causation, karma, birth, death undifferentiated from = nothingness; no self, karma ends, causation of ego ceases Reality = the interplay of environment, body and mind, ...

All being exists undifferentiated, no aspect of being causes or originates another aspect. What exactly do you mean here? So my parents who died, (disappeared from my reality) still exist somewhere in the Totality and furthermore I was never actually born to them, (caused) but always existed? Reall...

There is no differentiated physical reality without an observer. Physical reality is a projection of the observer. Correct. what's on the menu? Reality is experienced subjectively, everything is experienced through the mind, so the state of ones mind greatly effects the reality one experiences, our...

Isn't informational content just another perspective? If Cube and viewer of cube are one thing how is the informational content changed? Measurements require relativity, but the Totality is not relative to anything, since it's everything, that is why the Totality must be conceived logically.

There is no singular nature of being, the nature of all being is emptiness, which enables causality. It's by examining life as it is all around us that we break through the limits of consciousness, if life wasn't based on causation, we'd have no way of figuring out how misleading consciousness is. J...

When there is this, that is.
With the arising of this, that arises.
When this is not, neither is that.
With the cessation of this, that ceases.

Everything, everything you can see and everything you can't see.

Kunga wrote:

Dennis Mahar wrote:
there's nothing to get.

Who's Aware that there's nothing to get ?

The Totality is aware.

The senses are a subset of perception. The senses are contained in the field of awareness. You do not need the senses to be aware. If you lose the sense of sight are you still aware? If you lose the sense of smell are you still aware? If you lose the sense of touch are you still aware? If you lose ...

So you're saying Awareness is independent of the senses?

This is word/semantic play here.......the language is limited and manipulated and shape the mind in certain way.... if the universe contains everything then it is limitless but the word container implies limits so if I use the word "container" it means it has limits...but that just the wo...

One cake cannot be divided up, or else it wouldn't be "one cake". Whatever you consider to be the cake, it cannot have any pieces. If you define some slices of cake to be one cake, then the slices don't have existence any more and there is only the cake. Therefore you cannot logically mak...

Picture a cake sliced into pieces do you realize all the pieces are One cake divided up. Realizing they are one cake, doesn't magically make each piece the same piece.

jupiviv wrote:
If the fly and the yak are the same then they don't exist to begin with, so how can you be neither one of them? Also, what "whole" are you affirming if the parts of this whole do not exist to begin with?

I never said they were the same.

I thought what he was saying is what speakers say of about the world is true in the sense that is how they understand the world. So even if what the speaker says is clearly untrue, it provides insight into how the speaker relates to the world and thus is a starting point for communication.

One poster say the universe contains everything :Hence the universe has the purpose to contain everything, it is a container. If the Universe is a container then there would be something outside of the container. I don't think it is a good idea to try to hijack the human program We shouldn't use ou...