GENIUS FORUMS

Does our consciousness exist or doesn't it? This is the question of solipsism. It's nice to know that neither implies dualism. It seems that you believe in consciousness, and I don't believe in consciousness. I don't believe in consciousness in the way you think I do, when I say I am in all things ...

and that an underlying undifferentiated reality contains all being- but the validity of reason itself cannot be confirmed except self-referentially. I guess I don't understand what you mean by "undifferentiated reality." because this relies on being differentiated in some way, and I am no...

It is not new, this message of the MYSTIC, the I AM that, ever craving, without end, this insatiable need for union. With wistful heart they worship at the alter of two, playing over and over again in their minds the blissful moment of union. They go on missing that subject and object will never be ...

I intuitively understood immediately MA is seeking escape, key words being boredom, despair, and realistic hope. But to simply say I know intuitively you're full of poopoo MA, seems unproductive so I attempt to break through using logic, what else can I do? Intuition and logic go hand in hand, work ...

We have evidence of infinite worlds within our own Universe, the insect world, the bird world, the plant world, and on and on, and in this ONE Universe there is a time for all things under the sun. To look farther for what is right under our noses is illogical.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God Thought precedes the actual, thought was and always is. Thought creates it's language, just as evolution creates it's environment. The Universe and language, both chock full of contrasts. To be wed to the idea that we ar...

This morning as I was driving to work, I was thinking (again) about how all this physical phenomena is actually not physical but mental, as it is all coming from the brain. Our skandas (feelings/perceptions) create the sense that it is physical, but that is the illusion. The Citta/Mind is not a phy...

Ok, so how did you arrive at the "realization" that there is no separate self ? I had the experience of subject and object snapping into one, and it was perfectly clear and obvious. Even as you say this, you act as there is a separate self. Is this just the left-over delusion that hasn't ...

I think that movies already been done.

Cathy, physical manifestation is the most convenient form to illustrate the concept. Physical existence itself is just a convention, all that exists is information. I think there are aspects to both of our philosophies of which the other is still unaware. Ok, I won't argue with that, but I don't re...

I did! This flux of senses, environment and mind, this process is actually capable of thinking, even if for the first 50+ years it was all wrong.

The only thing we need to escape Kunga is our belief in a separate self. We attain freedom not from old age, sickness and death, but the Ego that rails against life at every turn. I'm glad Thomas gave you some encouragement though because I too stood where you're standing now. Life is perfect; we on...

We have different definitions of the word nothing. Language is so inadequate. For you, not finite=nothing finite=bounded/limited not finite=not bounded not bounded=infinite nothing=infinity For me, being=infinity Nothing is that force which makes finite. When I say nothing, take it to mean the caus...

We have this Universal Mind. But due to obscurations (defilements), we fail to access it fully. As far as it having a locus, if it is possible that it can be attained or it is part of our nature, then it's accessible. So it must have a locus ? To me, that means it is everywhere in everything. As it...

Kunga wrote:

Cathy Preston wrote:Seems like wishful deluded thinking to me.

That's why I try to keep my thoughts to myself. Everytime I express myself here I get humiliated.

Wait a minute that is your expression? I thought it was a discourse by Acariya Mahā Boowa.

Seems like wishful deluded thinking to me.

Have you ever experienced a hallucination?

As for me I'd put Chong2 and Chung3 to work, if they bitched and moaned, definitely real.

Worldly things are worldly things, spiritual things are spiritual things, never the twain shall meet, except, of course, in the conscious activity of contemplation-purification. Jesus said, “If your leaders say to you, ‘Look, the (Father’s) kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will pre...

I guess I was lucky, never really made genius status.

Very nice, such a relief from the standard love is all there is.

mental vagrant wrote:Can you not pat your head and rub your stomach?

This tickled me!

So, it's not possible for something to exist unless it's un-caused. Everything else inherently exists. Is temporal. The UN-CAUSED is NOT empty : No thing is un-caused, everything we see and don't see is caused, and the absolute is the Totality of that. Absolute and Relative are one thing, form and ...

a possibility for existence. That doesn't make sense, you mean this illusion makes mistakes ? Can a dreamer make mistakes in a dream ? If so, are there real consequenses ? Kunga think of people who believed the world was flat. They simply mis-perceived reality, from that simple mistake all kinds of...

Hello Iceman

And Cathy, just to address in general your questions regarding the assumption of a tao-like relationship between love and hate (in other words, that disclosing one in the world necessitates the appearance of the other), I have just, for myself, simply never found this to be true. Emotions, per se, ...